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
► A conventional, formulaic, and oversimplified conception, opinion, or image.
► A person with masterly skill or technique in the arts.
► To move back or away from a limit, point, or mark
2. Introspection
► Conversation between characters in a drama or narrative
► Having a buoyant or self-confident air; brisk.
► Sharing the same opinions or views; being in complete harmony or accord.
3. Decorum
► Sharing the same opinions or views; being in complete harmony or accord.
► To pound, crush, or grind to a powder or dust.
► Appropriateness of behavior or conduct
4. Delegate
► A movement or procedure involving skill and dexterity.
► An embankment built to prevent flooding
► A person authorized to act as representative for another; a deputy.
5. Nocturnal
► The right or privilege of voting; franchise.
► Of, relating to, or occurring in the night
► Something that is passed down from preceding generations; a tradition.