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. Repose
► Consuming or eager to consume great amounts of food; ravenous.
► The act of resting or the state of being at rest.
► One that is inconvenient, annoying, or vexatious; a bother.
► Similarity in some respects between things that are otherwise dissimilar.
2. Ultraviolet
► A relationship of mutual benefit or dependence.
3. Guru
► Having no specific pattern, purpose, or objective.
► A person with masterly skill or technique in the arts.
► A teacher and guide in spiritual and philosophical matters.
4. Decorum
► Harmful, malevolent, injurious. Harmfully cancerous.
► To take in by elaborate methods of deceit
► Appropriateness of behavior or conduct
5. Guerrilla
► Selecting or employing individual elements from a variety of sources, systems, or styles
► A fungus, usually of the class Ascomycetes, that grows symbiotically with algae,
► An embankment built to prevent flooding
