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. Stereotype
► Inspiring awe, admiration, or wonder
► A conventional, formulaic, and oversimplified conception, opinion, or image.
► Loud, noisy, and lacking in restraint or discipline
► A proportional part or share.
2. Lichen
► Having or demonstrating enthusiasm
► Using or marked by the use of few words; terse or concise.
► A fungus, usually of the class Ascomycetes, that grows symbiotically with algae,
3. Toxin
► A poisonous substance, especially a protein, that is produced by living cells or organisms.
4. Voracious
► An alteration or change, as in nature, form, or quality.
► The distribution of energy emitted by a radiant source, arranged in order of wavelengths.
► Consuming or eager to consume great amounts of food; ravenous.
5. Cower
► Appropriateness of behavior or conduct
► The distance that light travels in a vacuum in one year.