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. Malignant
► To rejoice greatly; be jubilant or triumphant
► Harmful, malevolent, injurious. Harmfully cancerous.
► Being without or almost without hope
► Appropriateness of behavior or conduct
2. Mutation
► To stress or emphasize; intensify
► Something that is passed down from preceding generations; a tradition.
► An alteration or change, as in nature, form, or quality.
► To swing indecisively from one course of action or opinion to another.
3. Spectrum
► The quality or state of being tranquil; serenity.
► The distribution of energy emitted by a radiant source, arranged in order of wavelengths.
► Having a buoyant or self-confident air; brisk.
4. Protagonist
► A closed plane figure bounded by three or more line segments.
► A person authorized to act as representative for another; a deputy.
► The main character in a drama or other literary work.
5. Commemorate
► The drawing of a conclusion by reasoning; the act of deducing.
► To honor the memory of with a ceremony
► One who rejects a religion, cause, allegiance, or group for another; a deserter.
► A poisonous substance, especially a protein, that is produced by living cells or organisms.
