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. Decorum
► To move in waves or with a smooth, wavelike motion.
► The arrangement of events in time
► One that is inconvenient, annoying, or vexatious; a bother.
► Appropriateness of behavior or conduct
2. Voracious
► To condescend to give or grant
► Sharing the same opinions or views; being in complete harmony or accord.
► Similarity in some respects between things that are otherwise dissimilar.
► Consuming or eager to consume great amounts of food; ravenous.
3. Yacht
► Marked by hearty conviviality and good cheer.
► A weather phenomenon in the Eastern Pacific that is precisely equivalent to a hurricane.
► To take in by elaborate methods of deceit
4. Hologram
► An unstable, poisonous allotrope of oxygen.
► Conversation between characters in a drama or narrative
5. Solstice
► A metric unit of length equal to 1,000 meters (0.62 mile).
► A schedule of prices or fees.