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. Malignant
► An unstable, poisonous allotrope of oxygen.
► Conversation between characters in a drama or narrative
► Harmful, malevolent, injurious. Harmfully cancerous.
2. Mutation
► A person with masterly skill or technique in the arts.
► Of, relating to, or occurring in the night
► An alteration or change, as in nature, form, or quality.
► Sharing the same opinions or views; being in complete harmony or accord.
3. Quota
► A fungus, usually of the class Ascomycetes, that grows symbiotically with algae,
► A proportional part or share.
4. Chronology
► A metric unit of length equal to 1,000 meters (0.62 mile).
► To take in by elaborate methods of deceit
► The arrangement of events in time
5. Tumult
► A disorderly commotion or disturbance.
► A teacher and guide in spiritual and philosophical matters.
► A conventional, formulaic, and oversimplified conception, opinion, or image.
► An elevated, comparatively level expanse of land; a tableland.