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. Zoology
► Appropriateness of behavior or conduct
► One who habitually takes advantage of the generosity of others without making any useful return.
► One that takes in everything available, as with the mind.
2. Voracious
► One that takes in everything available, as with the mind.
► Something that is passed down from preceding generations; a tradition.
► Consuming or eager to consume great amounts of food; ravenous.
► Sharing the same opinions or views; being in complete harmony or accord.
3. Solstice
► Having a backbone or spinal column.
► Marked by hearty conviviality and good cheer.
► The drawing of a conclusion by reasoning; the act of deducing.
4. Analogy
► The drawing of a conclusion by reasoning; the act of deducing.
► An unstable, poisonous allotrope of oxygen.
► Similarity in some respects between things that are otherwise dissimilar.
► One that speaks for, represents, or advocates
5. Marsupial
► To move in waves or with a smooth, wavelike motion.
► Grossly offensive to decency or morality.
