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. Recede
► To move back or away from a limit, point, or mark
► One that is inconvenient, annoying, or vexatious; a bother.
► Not subject to an obligation imposed on others; exempt.
► A disorderly commotion or disturbance.
2. Vacillate
► An elevated, comparatively level expanse of land; a tableland.
► To swing indecisively from one course of action or opinion to another.
► Being without or almost without hope
► Using or marked by the use of few words; terse or concise.
3. Omnivore
► Using or marked by the use of few words; terse or concise.
► Having no specific pattern, purpose, or objective.
► One that takes in everything available, as with the mind.
4. Gargoyle
► An unstable, poisonous allotrope of oxygen.
► A grotesque ornamental figure or projection.
► The arrangement of events in time
5. Technique
► The systematic procedure by which a complex or scientific task is accomplished.
► To grow well or luxuriantly; thrive