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. Typhoon
► Consuming or eager to consume great amounts of food; ravenous.
► A weather phenomenon in the Eastern Pacific that is precisely equivalent to a hurricane.
► Appropriateness of behavior or conduct
2. Omnivore
► The drawing of a conclusion by reasoning; the act of deducing.
► One that takes in everything available, as with the mind.
► A person authorized to act as representative for another; a deputy.
3. Commemorate
► To swing indecisively from one course of action or opinion to another.
► To honor the memory of with a ceremony
► Using or marked by the use of few words; terse or concise.
4. Heritage
► A closed plane figure bounded by three or more line segments.
► A relationship of mutual benefit or dependence.
► Something that is passed down from preceding generations; a tradition.
5. Solstice
► A fungus, usually of the class Ascomycetes, that grows symbiotically with algae,