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 prohibition by a government on certain or all trade with a foreign nation
► Harmful, malevolent, injurious. Harmfully cancerous.
► Grossly offensive to decency or morality.
► An embankment built to prevent flooding
2. Vaccine
► A conventional, formulaic, and oversimplified conception, opinion, or image.
► A teacher and guide in spiritual and philosophical matters.
► A preparation of a weakened or killed pathogen.
► In a deplorable state of distress or misfortune; miserable.
3. Metaphor
► A person authorized to act as representative for another; a deputy.
► One thing conceived as representing another; a symbol.
► An elevated, comparatively level expanse of land; a tableland.
4. Zoology
► Appropriateness of behavior or conduct
► The distribution of energy emitted by a radiant source, arranged in order of wavelengths.
► To pound, crush, or grind to a powder or dust.
5. Participle
► A poisonous substance, especially a protein, that is produced by living cells or organisms.