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. Jovial
► A proportional part or share.
► Marked by hearty conviviality and good cheer.
► Exceeding the limits of propriety or good manners; improperly forward or bold
2. Voracious
► One that is inconvenient, annoying, or vexatious; a bother.
► Consuming or eager to consume great amounts of food; ravenous.
► Having a buoyant or self-confident air; brisk.
3. Malignant
► The main character in a drama or other literary work.
► To move in waves or with a smooth, wavelike motion.
► Harmful, malevolent, injurious. Harmfully cancerous.
4. Lichen
► To take in by elaborate methods of deceit
► A fungus, usually of the class Ascomycetes, that grows symbiotically with algae,
► The right or privilege of voting; franchise.
5. Maneuver
► One that takes in everything available, as with the mind.
► To swing indecisively from one course of action or opinion to another.
► A movement or procedure involving skill and dexterity.
► A conventional, formulaic, and oversimplified conception, opinion, or image.
