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. Exult
► A grotesque ornamental figure or projection.
► The act of resting or the state of being at rest.
► Of, relating to, or occurring in the night
► To rejoice greatly; be jubilant or triumphant
2. Nuisance
► One who habitually takes advantage of the generosity of others without making any useful return.
► A person authorized to act as representative for another; a deputy.
► One that is inconvenient, annoying, or vexatious; a bother.
3. Malignant
► Harmful, malevolent, injurious. Harmfully cancerous.
► A weather phenomenon in the Eastern Pacific that is precisely equivalent to a hurricane.
4. Wretched
► Being without or almost without hope
► The arrangement of events in time
► In a deplorable state of distress or misfortune; miserable.
► A relationship of mutual benefit or dependence.
5. Recede
► Having a backbone or spinal column.
► Strikingly unconventional and far-fetched in style or appearance; odd
► To move back or away from a limit, point, or mark
► The drawing of a conclusion by reasoning; the act of deducing.