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. Quota
► A characteristic rate or rhythm of activity; a pace
► A proportional part or share.
► The quality or state of being tranquil; serenity.
2. Suffrage
► The right or privilege of voting; franchise.
► To take in by elaborate methods of deceit
3. Dialogue
► A metric unit of length equal to 1,000 meters (0.62 mile).
► Conversation between characters in a drama or narrative
► A person with masterly skill or technique in the arts.
► Harmful, malevolent, injurious. Harmfully cancerous.
4. Voracious
► Consuming or eager to consume great amounts of food; ravenous.
► One thing conceived as representing another; a symbol.
► Selecting or employing individual elements from a variety of sources, systems, or styles
5. Omnivore
► The drawing of a conclusion by reasoning; the act of deducing.
► One that takes in everything available, as with the mind.
► To grow well or luxuriantly; thrive
