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Words in the News Quiz
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. A prohibition by a government on certain or all trade with a foreign nation
2. A person authorized to act as representative for another; a deputy.
Delegate
Hieroglyphic
Quandary
Exponent
3. Having a backbone or spinal column.
Vertebrate
Accentuate
Typhoon
Wretched
4. Harmful, malevolent, injurious. Harmfully cancerous.
Typhoon
Wretched
Renegade
Malignant
5. The main character in a drama or other literary work.
Spectrum
Protagonist
Impertinent
Suffrage