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. Recede
► To move back or away from a limit, point, or mark
► The drawing of a conclusion by reasoning; the act of deducing.
► A relationship of mutual benefit or dependence.
► A conventional, formulaic, and oversimplified conception, opinion, or image.
2. Embargo
► Exceeding the limits of propriety or good manners; improperly forward or bold
► A prohibition by a government on certain or all trade with a foreign nation
► The quality or state of being tranquil; serenity.
► The distance that light travels in a vacuum in one year.
3. Phloem
► Strikingly unconventional and far-fetched in style or appearance; odd
► Selecting or employing individual elements from a variety of sources, systems, or styles
4. Protagonist
► The act of resting or the state of being at rest.
► The main character in a drama or other literary work.
► Of, relating to, or occurring in the night
► Using or marked by the use of few words; terse or concise.
5. Bamboozle
► The right or privilege of voting; franchise.
► To take in by elaborate methods of deceit
► One that takes in everything available, as with the mind.
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.