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
► Marked by hearty conviviality and good cheer.
► An unstable, poisonous allotrope of oxygen.
► Conversation between characters in a drama or narrative
► Harmful, malevolent, injurious. Harmfully cancerous.
2. Protagonist
► Appropriateness of behavior or conduct
► The main character in a drama or other literary work.
► A proportional part or share.
3. Guerrilla
► Exceeding the limits of propriety or good manners; improperly forward or bold
► A metric unit of length equal to 1,000 meters (0.62 mile).
4. Strategy
► To grow well or luxuriantly; thrive
► Similarity in some respects between things that are otherwise dissimilar.
► A prohibition by a government on certain or all trade with a foreign nation
5. Plateau
► A fungus, usually of the class Ascomycetes, that grows symbiotically with algae,
► An elevated, comparatively level expanse of land; a tableland.
► Being without or almost without hope
► An ammunition belt, worn over the shoulder, having loops or pockets for cartridges.
