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
► A person with masterly skill or technique in the arts.
► Loud, noisy, and lacking in restraint or discipline
► Harmful, malevolent, injurious. Harmfully cancerous.
2. Typhoon
► A weather phenomenon in the Eastern Pacific that is precisely equivalent to a hurricane.
► The act of resting or the state of being at rest.
► Similarity in some respects between things that are otherwise dissimilar.
3. Technique
► The act of resting or the state of being at rest.
► Similarity in some respects between things that are otherwise dissimilar.
► A poisonous substance, especially a protein, that is produced by living cells or organisms.
► The systematic procedure by which a complex or scientific task is accomplished.
4. Camouflage
► The distance that light travels in a vacuum in one year.
► Having a backbone or spinal column.
► A movement or procedure involving skill and dexterity.
5. Decorum
► Sharing the same opinions or views; being in complete harmony or accord.
► One who habitually takes advantage of the generosity of others without making any useful return.
► Appropriateness of behavior or conduct