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. Voracious
► Consuming or eager to consume great amounts of food; ravenous.
► The distance that light travels in a vacuum in one year.
► A person with masterly skill or technique in the arts.
► Something that is passed down from preceding generations; a tradition.
2. Repose
► A person with masterly skill or technique in the arts.
► Something that is passed down from preceding generations; a tradition.
► Being without or almost without hope
► The act of resting or the state of being at rest.
3. Jovial
► A preparation of a weakened or killed pathogen.
► Marked by hearty conviviality and good cheer.
► Appropriateness of behavior or conduct
► To move in waves or with a smooth, wavelike motion.
4. Laconic
► Using or marked by the use of few words; terse or concise.
► Conversation between characters in a drama or narrative
► A relationship of mutual benefit or dependence.
► A proportional part or share.
5. Guru
► A teacher and guide in spiritual and philosophical matters.
► To swing indecisively from one course of action or opinion to another.
► The drawing of a conclusion by reasoning; the act of deducing.