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 fungus, usually of the class Ascomycetes, that grows symbiotically with algae,
► The arrangement of events in time
► Harmful, malevolent, injurious. Harmfully cancerous.
2. Aspire
► One who rejects a religion, cause, allegiance, or group for another; a deserter.
► Of, relating to, or occurring in the night
► To have a great ambition or ultimate goal
► Something that is passed down from preceding generations; a tradition.
3. Tempo
► A characteristic rate or rhythm of activity; a pace
► Appropriateness of behavior or conduct
4. Typhoon
► A weather phenomenon in the Eastern Pacific that is precisely equivalent to a hurricane.
► Incorrectness of reasoning or belief
► A relationship of mutual benefit or dependence.
► A preparation of a weakened or killed pathogen.
5. Vacillate
► A relationship of mutual benefit or dependence.
► A preparation of a weakened or killed pathogen.
► The act of reasoning from factual knowledge or evidence.
► To swing indecisively from one course of action or opinion to another.