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. Deign
► Being without or almost without hope
► To condescend to give or grant
► Conversation between characters in a drama or narrative
► A person authorized to act as representative for another; a deputy.
2. Tempo
► Similarity in some respects between things that are otherwise dissimilar.
► Strikingly unconventional and far-fetched in style or appearance; odd
► A characteristic rate or rhythm of activity; a pace
► The distance that light travels in a vacuum in one year.
3. Divulge
► Not subject to an obligation imposed on others; exempt.
► One that takes in everything available, as with the mind.
► One that is inconvenient, annoying, or vexatious; a bother.
4. Ultraviolet
► Loud, noisy, and lacking in restraint or discipline
► The arrangement of events in time
5. Plateau
► A preparation of a weakened or killed pathogen.
► An elevated, comparatively level expanse of land; a tableland.
► Inspiring awe, admiration, or wonder
► A person with masterly skill or technique in the arts.
