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. Strategy
► Selecting or employing individual elements from a variety of sources, systems, or styles
► An unstable, poisonous allotrope of oxygen.
► A characteristic rate or rhythm of activity; a pace
2. Dialogue
► An ammunition belt, worn over the shoulder, having loops or pockets for cartridges.
► Incorrectness of reasoning or belief
► Grossly offensive to decency or morality.
► Conversation between characters in a drama or narrative
3. Protagonist
► The act of reasoning from factual knowledge or evidence.
► The distribution of energy emitted by a radiant source, arranged in order of wavelengths.
► Strikingly unconventional and far-fetched in style or appearance; odd
► The main character in a drama or other literary work.
4. Kilometer
► One who rejects a religion, cause, allegiance, or group for another; a deserter.
► To stress or emphasize; intensify
► A metric unit of length equal to 1,000 meters (0.62 mile).
5. Antibody
► To have a great ambition or ultimate goal
► In a deplorable state of distress or misfortune; miserable.
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.