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. Sacrifice
► Selecting or employing individual elements from a variety of sources, systems, or styles
► The systematic procedure by which a complex or scientific task is accomplished.
► The quality or state of being tranquil; serenity.
2. Inference
► Loud, noisy, and lacking in restraint or discipline
► The act of reasoning from factual knowledge or evidence.
► A characteristic rate or rhythm of activity; a pace
► A grotesque ornamental figure or projection.
3. Stereotype
► Using or marked by the use of few words; terse or concise.
► To honor the memory of with a ceremony
► A conventional, formulaic, and oversimplified conception, opinion, or image.
4. Participle
► One that is inconvenient, annoying, or vexatious; a bother.
5. Voracious
► Consuming or eager to consume great amounts of food; ravenous.
► Something that is passed down from preceding generations; a tradition.
► An embankment built to prevent flooding
