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
► Marked by hearty conviviality and good cheer.
► The main character in a drama or other literary work.
► The distance that light travels in a vacuum in one year.
► One that speaks for, represents, or advocates
2. Eclectic
► Selecting or employing individual elements from a variety of sources, systems, or styles
► An elevated, comparatively level expanse of land; a tableland.
3. Analogy
► Similarity in some respects between things that are otherwise dissimilar.
► To pound, crush, or grind to a powder or dust.
► Conversation between characters in a drama or narrative
4. Labyrinth
► Having no specific pattern, purpose, or objective.
► To have a great ambition or ultimate goal
► An unstable, poisonous allotrope of oxygen.
5. Accentuate
► An unstable, poisonous allotrope of oxygen.
► Having a buoyant or self-confident air; brisk.
► To stress or emphasize; intensify
► A teacher and guide in spiritual and philosophical matters.
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.