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. Typhoon
► The right or privilege of voting; franchise.
► A weather phenomenon in the Eastern Pacific that is precisely equivalent to a hurricane.
► A person authorized to act as representative for another; a deputy.
2. Decorum
► A preparation of a weakened or killed pathogen.
► Appropriateness of behavior or conduct
► A conventional, formulaic, and oversimplified conception, opinion, or image.
► In a deplorable state of distress or misfortune; miserable.
3. Tumult
► An embankment built to prevent flooding
► A disorderly commotion or disturbance.
► The distribution of energy emitted by a radiant source, arranged in order of wavelengths.
4. Toxin
► A person with masterly skill or technique in the arts.
► Having a backbone or spinal column.
► A poisonous substance, especially a protein, that is produced by living cells or organisms.
► The drawing of a conclusion by reasoning; the act of deducing.
5. Parasite
► Not subject to an obligation imposed on others; exempt.
► To swing indecisively from one course of action or opinion to another.
► Having or demonstrating enthusiasm
► One who habitually takes advantage of the generosity of others without making any useful return.
