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. Despondent
► Being without or almost without hope
► The main character in a drama or other literary work.
► The drawing of a conclusion by reasoning; the act of deducing.
► Marked by hearty conviviality and good cheer.
2. Exponent
► Marked by hearty conviviality and good cheer.
► To have a great ambition or ultimate goal
► One that speaks for, represents, or advocates
► Loud, noisy, and lacking in restraint or discipline
3. Analogy
► An alteration or change, as in nature, form, or quality.
► Similarity in some respects between things that are otherwise dissimilar.
4. Immune
► Not subject to an obligation imposed on others; exempt.
► A prohibition by a government on certain or all trade with a foreign nation
► A closed plane figure bounded by three or more line segments.
► To swing indecisively from one course of action or opinion to another.
5. Suffrage
► The right or privilege of voting; franchise.
► A characteristic rate or rhythm of activity; a pace
► Incorrectness of reasoning or belief
► A conventional, formulaic, and oversimplified conception, opinion, or image.