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 preparation of a weakened or killed pathogen.
► A person with masterly skill or technique in the arts.
► Harmful, malevolent, injurious. Harmfully cancerous.
2. Aspire
► To move back or away from a limit, point, or mark
► To have a great ambition or ultimate goal
► An alteration or change, as in nature, form, or quality.
3. Embargo
► To take in by elaborate methods of deceit
► A prohibition by a government on certain or all trade with a foreign nation
► Sharing the same opinions or views; being in complete harmony or accord.
► Of, relating to, or occurring in the night
4. Pulverize
► A disorderly commotion or disturbance.
► To pound, crush, or grind to a powder or dust.
► A proportional part or share.
5. Boisterous
► Loud, noisy, and lacking in restraint or discipline
► Having a buoyant or self-confident air; brisk.
► A schedule of prices or fees.