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
► A disorderly commotion or disturbance.
► Consuming or eager to consume great amounts of food; ravenous.
► Appropriateness of behavior or conduct
2. Participle
► A weather phenomenon in the Eastern Pacific that is precisely equivalent to a hurricane.
► The distribution of energy emitted by a radiant source, arranged in order of wavelengths.
► The arrangement of events in time
3. Gargoyle
► Being without or almost without hope
► A grotesque ornamental figure or projection.
► An ammunition belt, worn over the shoulder, having loops or pockets for cartridges.
► Inspiring awe, admiration, or wonder
4. Parasite
► One who habitually takes advantage of the generosity of others without making any useful return.
► To swing indecisively from one course of action or opinion to another.
5. Virtuoso
► To honor the memory of with a ceremony
► A person with masterly skill or technique in the arts.
► The systematic procedure by which a complex or scientific task is accomplished.
► One that is inconvenient, annoying, or vexatious; a bother.