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 act of resting or the state of being at rest.
► Harmful, malevolent, injurious. Harmfully cancerous.
► Using or marked by the use of few words; terse or concise.
► One that takes in everything available, as with the mind.
2. Toxin
► A grotesque ornamental figure or projection.
► A poisonous substance, especially a protein, that is produced by living cells or organisms.
► A prohibition by a government on certain or all trade with a foreign nation
3. Impertinent
► Exceeding the limits of propriety or good manners; improperly forward or bold
► Appropriateness of behavior or conduct
► A relationship of mutual benefit or dependence.
4. Hieroglyphic
► Similarity in some respects between things that are otherwise dissimilar.
► A person with masterly skill or technique in the arts.
5. Enthusiastic
► An ammunition belt, worn over the shoulder, having loops or pockets for cartridges.
► Having or demonstrating enthusiasm
► Conversation between characters in a drama or narrative
► To move back or away from a limit, point, or mark
