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. Suffrage
► One who habitually takes advantage of the generosity of others without making any useful return.
► Conversation between characters in a drama or narrative
► The right or privilege of voting; franchise.
► One thing conceived as representing another; a symbol.
2. Voracious
► Having a backbone or spinal column.
► Consuming or eager to consume great amounts of food; ravenous.
► A metric unit of length equal to 1,000 meters (0.62 mile).
3. Rainforest
► A schedule of prices or fees.
► To swing indecisively from one course of action or opinion to another.
► Inspiring awe, admiration, or wonder
4. Technique
► Using or marked by the use of few words; terse or concise.
► To honor the memory of with a ceremony
► The systematic procedure by which a complex or scientific task is accomplished.
► One that takes in everything available, as with the mind.
5. Mutation
► An alteration or change, as in nature, form, or quality.
► Loud, noisy, and lacking in restraint or discipline
