Resources for Bay Area
Teachers and Students
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. Malignant
► One who habitually takes advantage of the generosity of others without making any useful return.
► Harmful, malevolent, injurious. Harmfully cancerous.
► To move in waves or with a smooth, wavelike motion.
2. Labyrinth
► A conventional, formulaic, and oversimplified conception, opinion, or image.
3. Commemorate
► Not subject to an obligation imposed on others; exempt.
► To honor the memory of with a ceremony
► A grotesque ornamental figure or projection.
4. Salmonella
► A weather phenomenon in the Eastern Pacific that is precisely equivalent to a hurricane.
5. Tranquility
► The quality or state of being tranquil; serenity.
► A poisonous substance, especially a protein, that is produced by living cells or organisms.
► A preparation of a weakened or killed pathogen.