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
► The quality or state of being tranquil; serenity.
► A disorderly commotion or disturbance.
► The main character in a drama or other literary work.
► Consuming or eager to consume great amounts of food; ravenous.
2. Sect
► Harmful, malevolent, injurious. Harmfully cancerous.
► Similarity in some respects between things that are otherwise dissimilar.
► A movement or procedure involving skill and dexterity.
3. Parasite
► One that is inconvenient, annoying, or vexatious; a bother.
► An embankment built to prevent flooding
► One who habitually takes advantage of the generosity of others without making any useful return.
4. Metaphor
► A characteristic rate or rhythm of activity; a pace
► Exceeding the limits of propriety or good manners; improperly forward or bold
► One thing conceived as representing another; a symbol.
5. Omnivore
► One that takes in everything available, as with the mind.
