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. Ultraviolet
► Exceeding the limits of propriety or good manners; improperly forward or bold
► One that takes in everything available, as with the mind.
2. Laconic
► Using or marked by the use of few words; terse or concise.
► Having a backbone or spinal column.
► Consuming or eager to consume great amounts of food; ravenous.
3. Decorum
► One who habitually takes advantage of the generosity of others without making any useful return.
► Appropriateness of behavior or conduct
► The arrangement of events in time
4. Immune
► A grotesque ornamental figure or projection.
► Not subject to an obligation imposed on others; exempt.
5. Typhoon
► An unstable, poisonous allotrope of oxygen.
► A weather phenomenon in the Eastern Pacific that is precisely equivalent to a hurricane.
► To move in waves or with a smooth, wavelike motion.