LS.CCS.4/5/6 Grades 3-12: Students are asked to determine the meaning of unknown and multiple-meaning words through multiple choice vocabulary quizzes. Quizzes are designed to help students demonstrate understanding of figurative language, word relationships and nuances in words, acquire and use accurately grade-appropriate general academic and domain-specific words, and gather vocabulary knowledge when considering a word or phrase important to comprehension or expression. Students are then asked to find the words within the newspaper and copy the sentence for context to its overall meaning or function in a sentence.
Words in the News Quiz
5 Middle School Words
Click on the correct answer in the quiz below.
Then see if you can find the word in your newspaper -- the print edition, the website or the digital edition and copy the sentence for context. NOTE: High School words are much harder to find!
1. Nebula
► A person authorized to act as representative for another; a deputy.
► The quality or state of being tranquil; serenity.
2. Outrageous
► A poisonous substance, especially a protein, that is produced by living cells or organisms.
► Grossly offensive to decency or morality.
► Selecting or employing individual elements from a variety of sources, systems, or styles
3. Wretched
► In a deplorable state of distress or misfortune; miserable.
► A metric unit of length equal to 1,000 meters (0.62 mile).
► An unstable, poisonous allotrope of oxygen.
4. Despondent
► Conversation between characters in a drama or narrative
► Being without or almost without hope
5. Metaphor
► A grotesque ornamental figure or projection.
► One thing conceived as representing another; a symbol.
► Similarity in some respects between things that are otherwise dissimilar.
