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. Impertinent
► The arrangement of events in time
► To move in waves or with a smooth, wavelike motion.
► Exceeding the limits of propriety or good manners; improperly forward or bold
2. Malignant
► A conventional, formulaic, and oversimplified conception, opinion, or image.
► Harmful, malevolent, injurious. Harmfully cancerous.
► A grotesque ornamental figure or projection.
3. Polygon
► To rejoice greatly; be jubilant or triumphant
► To take in by elaborate methods of deceit
► Appropriateness of behavior or conduct
► A closed plane figure bounded by three or more line segments.
4. Toxin
► An embankment built to prevent flooding
► A poisonous substance, especially a protein, that is produced by living cells or organisms.
► The act of resting or the state of being at rest.
5. Recede
► To move back or away from a limit, point, or mark
► Not subject to an obligation imposed on others; exempt.