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. Vaccine
► Exceeding the limits of propriety or good manners; improperly forward or bold
► A preparation of a weakened or killed pathogen.
► One who rejects a religion, cause, allegiance, or group for another; a deserter.
2. Wretched
► The distance that light travels in a vacuum in one year.
► In a deplorable state of distress or misfortune; miserable.
► Inspiring awe, admiration, or wonder
3. Cower
► The right or privilege of voting; franchise.
► The quality or state of being tranquil; serenity.
► An unstable, poisonous allotrope of oxygen.
4. Malignant
► Loud, noisy, and lacking in restraint or discipline
► Harmful, malevolent, injurious. Harmfully cancerous.
► Having no specific pattern, purpose, or objective.
► Something that is passed down from preceding generations; a tradition.
5. Guru
► Something that is passed down from preceding generations; a tradition.
► To condescend to give or grant
► A teacher and guide in spiritual and philosophical matters.