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 person with masterly skill or technique in the arts.
► A movement or procedure involving skill and dexterity.
► Harmful, malevolent, injurious. Harmfully cancerous.
2. Introspection
► An embankment built to prevent flooding
► Using or marked by the use of few words; terse or concise.
► Being without or almost without hope
3. Fallacy
► Incorrectness of reasoning or belief
► To have a great ambition or ultimate goal
► Strikingly unconventional and far-fetched in style or appearance; odd
4. Immune
► Strikingly unconventional and far-fetched in style or appearance; odd
► Not subject to an obligation imposed on others; exempt.
► Inspiring awe, admiration, or wonder
5. Voracious
► The systematic procedure by which a complex or scientific task is accomplished.
► An ammunition belt, worn over the shoulder, having loops or pockets for cartridges.
► Consuming or eager to consume great amounts of food; ravenous.
► A schedule of prices or fees.
