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. Tundra
► The systematic procedure by which a complex or scientific task is accomplished.
► Loud, noisy, and lacking in restraint or discipline
► A prohibition by a government on certain or all trade with a foreign nation
2. Malignant
► Harmful, malevolent, injurious. Harmfully cancerous.
► An alteration or change, as in nature, form, or quality.
3. Stereotype
► An alteration or change, as in nature, form, or quality.
► To stress or emphasize; intensify
► A person with masterly skill or technique in the arts.
► A conventional, formulaic, and oversimplified conception, opinion, or image.
4. Typhoon
► Conversation between characters in a drama or narrative
► The act of reasoning from factual knowledge or evidence.
► A weather phenomenon in the Eastern Pacific that is precisely equivalent to a hurricane.
5. Salmonella
► Exceeding the limits of propriety or good manners; improperly forward or bold
► Grossly offensive to decency or morality.
► A metric unit of length equal to 1,000 meters (0.62 mile).