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. Exult
► To rejoice greatly; be jubilant or triumphant
2. Recede
► To grow well or luxuriantly; thrive
► To pound, crush, or grind to a powder or dust.
► To move back or away from a limit, point, or mark
► In a deplorable state of distress or misfortune; miserable.
3. Outrageous
► An unstable, poisonous allotrope of oxygen.
► Inspiring awe, admiration, or wonder
► Grossly offensive to decency or morality.
► To swing indecisively from one course of action or opinion to another.
4. Malignant
► A state of uncertainty or perplexity.
► The drawing of a conclusion by reasoning; the act of deducing.
► The act of reasoning from factual knowledge or evidence.
► Harmful, malevolent, injurious. Harmfully cancerous.
5. Immune
► Something that is passed down from preceding generations; a tradition.
► Similarity in some respects between things that are otherwise dissimilar.
► Not subject to an obligation imposed on others; exempt.