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 systematic procedure by which a complex or scientific task is accomplished.
► Harmful, malevolent, injurious. Harmfully cancerous.
► Loud, noisy, and lacking in restraint or discipline
2. Tranquility
► An unstable, poisonous allotrope of oxygen.
► The quality or state of being tranquil; serenity.
► The drawing of a conclusion by reasoning; the act of deducing.
► To swing indecisively from one course of action or opinion to another.
3. Deign
► To condescend to give or grant
4. Maneuver
► A movement or procedure involving skill and dexterity.
► To move back or away from a limit, point, or mark
► To grow well or luxuriantly; thrive
5. Tumult
► A disorderly commotion or disturbance.
► A state of uncertainty or perplexity.
► Something that is passed down from preceding generations; a tradition.
► Having or demonstrating enthusiasm