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. Tranquility
► The quality or state of being tranquil; serenity.
► To swing indecisively from one course of action or opinion to another.
2. Malignant
► Having a buoyant or self-confident air; brisk.
► To have a great ambition or ultimate goal
► Harmful, malevolent, injurious. Harmfully cancerous.
3. Formidable
► To honor the memory of with a ceremony
► Inspiring awe, admiration, or wonder
4. Nocturnal
► Of, relating to, or occurring in the night
► An elevated, comparatively level expanse of land; a tableland.
► A fungus, usually of the class Ascomycetes, that grows symbiotically with algae,
5. Inference
► The act of reasoning from factual knowledge or evidence.
► An alteration or change, as in nature, form, or quality.
► An embankment built to prevent flooding
► One thing conceived as representing another; a symbol.