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. Protagonist
► To have a great ambition or ultimate goal
► The act of resting or the state of being at rest.
► The main character in a drama or other literary work.
2. Despondent
► Strikingly unconventional and far-fetched in style or appearance; odd
► Being without or almost without hope
3. Malignant
► Harmful, malevolent, injurious. Harmfully cancerous.
► An alteration or change, as in nature, form, or quality.
► An elevated, comparatively level expanse of land; a tableland.
4. Vertebrate
► An alteration or change, as in nature, form, or quality.
► An elevated, comparatively level expanse of land; a tableland.
► Sharing the same opinions or views; being in complete harmony or accord.
► Having a backbone or spinal column.
5. Cower
► Having no specific pattern, purpose, or objective.
► To grow well or luxuriantly; thrive