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
► A movement or procedure involving skill and dexterity.
► To condescend to give or grant
► Being without or almost without hope
2. Phloem
► The drawing of a conclusion by reasoning; the act of deducing.
► Having no specific pattern, purpose, or objective.
► Conversation between characters in a drama or narrative
3. Laconic
► Using or marked by the use of few words; terse or concise.
► One who habitually takes advantage of the generosity of others without making any useful return.
► A schedule of prices or fees.
► To take in by elaborate methods of deceit
4. Sacrifice
► An ammunition belt, worn over the shoulder, having loops or pockets for cartridges.
► Consuming or eager to consume great amounts of food; ravenous.
► Harmful, malevolent, injurious. Harmfully cancerous.
5. Strategy
► Grossly offensive to decency or morality.
► One that is inconvenient, annoying, or vexatious; a bother.
► Similarity in some respects between things that are otherwise dissimilar.