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 phase important to comprehension or expression. Students are then asked to find the words within the newspaper and copy the sentence for context to it's 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. Stereotype
► A conventional, formulaic, and oversimplified conception, opinion, or image.
2. Vaccine
► Grossly offensive to decency or morality.
► Selecting or employing individual elements from a variety of sources, systems, or styles
► A preparation of a weakened or killed pathogen.
► A poisonous substance, especially a protein, that is produced by living cells or organisms.
3. Malignant
► Exceeding the limits of propriety or good manners; improperly forward or bold
► Appropriateness of behavior or conduct
► Harmful, malevolent, injurious. Harmfully cancerous.
► A schedule of prices or fees.
4. Antibody
5. Technique
► The main character in a drama or other literary work.
► A metric unit of length equal to 1,000 meters (0.62 mile).
► The quality or state of being tranquil; serenity.
► The systematic procedure by which a complex or scientific task is accomplished.