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
► The distance that light travels in a vacuum in one year.
► Harmful, malevolent, injurious. Harmfully cancerous.
► A prohibition by a government on certain or all trade with a foreign nation
► Having a buoyant or self-confident air; brisk.
2. Spectrum
► The distribution of energy emitted by a radiant source, arranged in order of wavelengths.
► An ammunition belt, worn over the shoulder, having loops or pockets for cartridges.
► To take in by elaborate methods of deceit
3. Hypocrisy
► One that speaks for, represents, or advocates
► One that takes in everything available, as with the mind.
► To honor the memory of with a ceremony
4. Suffrage
► One that takes in everything available, as with the mind.
► To honor the memory of with a ceremony
► A weather phenomenon in the Eastern Pacific that is precisely equivalent to a hurricane.
► The right or privilege of voting; franchise.
5. Protagonist
► To move in waves or with a smooth, wavelike motion.
► The main character in a drama or other literary work.
