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. Vaccine
► Grossly offensive to decency or morality.
► A preparation of a weakened or killed pathogen.
► A weather phenomenon in the Eastern Pacific that is precisely equivalent to a hurricane.
2. Voracious
► Consuming or eager to consume great amounts of food; ravenous.
► A relationship of mutual benefit or dependence.
► To honor the memory of with a ceremony
► Similarity in some respects between things that are otherwise dissimilar.
3. Omnivore
► Similarity in some respects between things that are otherwise dissimilar.
► A movement or procedure involving skill and dexterity.
► One that takes in everything available, as with the mind.
4. Jaunty
► A state of uncertainty or perplexity.
► Having a buoyant or self-confident air; brisk.
► One thing conceived as representing another; a symbol.
5. Random
► One that is inconvenient, annoying, or vexatious; a bother.
► A conventional, formulaic, and oversimplified conception, opinion, or image.
► Having no specific pattern, purpose, or objective.