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. Salmonella
► The act of reasoning from factual knowledge or evidence.
2. Undulate
► The distance that light travels in a vacuum in one year.
► To move in waves or with a smooth, wavelike motion.
► To honor the memory of with a ceremony
► Similarity in some respects between things that are otherwise dissimilar.
3. Quarantine
► Similarity in some respects between things that are otherwise dissimilar.
► A preparation of a weakened or killed pathogen.
4. Malignant
► To rejoice greatly; be jubilant or triumphant
► Harmful, malevolent, injurious. Harmfully cancerous.
► One who habitually takes advantage of the generosity of others without making any useful return.
► A weather phenomenon in the Eastern Pacific that is precisely equivalent to a hurricane.
5. Laconic
► The systematic procedure by which a complex or scientific task is accomplished.
► Using or marked by the use of few words; terse or concise.