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. Light-Year
► To pound, crush, or grind to a powder or dust.
► The distance that light travels in a vacuum in one year.
► Consuming or eager to consume great amounts of food; ravenous.
2. Lichen
► A fungus, usually of the class Ascomycetes, that grows symbiotically with algae,
► Harmful, malevolent, injurious. Harmfully cancerous.
► A characteristic rate or rhythm of activity; a pace
3. Inference
► A person with masterly skill or technique in the arts.
► The main character in a drama or other literary work.
► The act of reasoning from factual knowledge or evidence.
► Grossly offensive to decency or morality.
4. Heritage
► Something that is passed down from preceding generations; a tradition.
► Strikingly unconventional and far-fetched in style or appearance; odd
► A person authorized to act as representative for another; a deputy.
► A proportional part or share.
5. Formidable
► Inspiring awe, admiration, or wonder
► Similarity in some respects between things that are otherwise dissimilar.
► Having no specific pattern, purpose, or objective.