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Middle School Quiz
Words in the News
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. To condescend to give or grant
Repose
Deign
Quarantine
Omnivore
2. Something that is passed down from preceding generations; a tradition.
Heritage
Marsupial
Tranquility
Vaccine
3. The main character in a drama or other literary work.
Vaccine
Quota
Protagonist
Metaphor
4. Forfeiture of something highly valued for the sake of one considered to have a greater value or claim.
Maneuver
Sect
Sacrifice
Antibody
5. The distribution of energy emitted by a radiant source, arranged in order of wavelengths.
Spectrum
Boycott
Toxin
Light-Year
