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. Decorum
► Exceeding the limits of propriety or good manners; improperly forward or bold
► Appropriateness of behavior or conduct
► Marked by hearty conviviality and good cheer.
► A grotesque ornamental figure or projection.
2. Voracious
► Having no specific pattern, purpose, or objective.
► Consuming or eager to consume great amounts of food; ravenous.
► A poisonous substance, especially a protein, that is produced by living cells or organisms.
► The drawing of a conclusion by reasoning; the act of deducing.
3. Delegate
► To swing indecisively from one course of action or opinion to another.
► A preparation of a weakened or killed pathogen.
► A person authorized to act as representative for another; a deputy.
► Having a backbone or spinal column.
4. Heritage
► To honor the memory of with a ceremony
► To move in waves or with a smooth, wavelike motion.
► One that takes in everything available, as with the mind.
► Something that is passed down from preceding generations; a tradition.
5. Suffrage
► An elevated, comparatively level expanse of land; a tableland.
► The right or privilege of voting; franchise.
► Not subject to an obligation imposed on others; exempt.
► A proportional part or share.