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 state of uncertainty or perplexity.
► Harmful, malevolent, injurious. Harmfully cancerous.
► Sharing the same opinions or views; being in complete harmony or accord.
2. Light-Year
► To grow well or luxuriantly; thrive
► The distance that light travels in a vacuum in one year.
► Being without or almost without hope
3. Marsupial
► The right or privilege of voting; franchise.
► A prohibition by a government on certain or all trade with a foreign nation
► Using or marked by the use of few words; terse or concise.
4. Protagonist
► The main character in a drama or other literary work.
► The systematic procedure by which a complex or scientific task is accomplished.
► Appropriateness of behavior or conduct
► To take in by elaborate methods of deceit
5. Deduction
► An embankment built to prevent flooding
► The drawing of a conclusion by reasoning; the act of deducing.
► A person with masterly skill or technique in the arts.
