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. Fallacy
► Incorrectness of reasoning or belief
► A conventional, formulaic, and oversimplified conception, opinion, or image.
► Exceeding the limits of propriety or good manners; improperly forward or bold
2. Cower
► Exceeding the limits of propriety or good manners; improperly forward or bold
► The arrangement of events in time
3. Malignant
► A preparation of a weakened or killed pathogen.
► Harmful, malevolent, injurious. Harmfully cancerous.
► An unstable, poisonous allotrope of oxygen.
► The main character in a drama or other literary work.
4. Typhoon
► A poisonous substance, especially a protein, that is produced by living cells or organisms.
► Having no specific pattern, purpose, or objective.
► A weather phenomenon in the Eastern Pacific that is precisely equivalent to a hurricane.
► An embankment built to prevent flooding
5. Boisterous
► Loud, noisy, and lacking in restraint or discipline
► Something that is passed down from preceding generations; a tradition.
► A metric unit of length equal to 1,000 meters (0.62 mile).
► An ammunition belt, worn over the shoulder, having loops or pockets for cartridges.