TIE | The Los Angeles Times in Education

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. Stereotype

► Having a buoyant or self-confident air; brisk.

► Marked by hearty conviviality and good cheer.

► A conventional, formulaic, and oversimplified conception, opinion, or image.

► Something that is passed down from preceding generations; a tradition.

2. Eclectic

► One thing conceived as representing another; a symbol.

► An embankment built to prevent flooding

► Loud, noisy, and lacking in restraint or discipline

► Selecting or employing individual elements from a variety of sources, systems, or styles

3. Lichen

► The distance that light travels in a vacuum in one year.

► A prohibition by a government on certain or all trade with a foreign nation

► Strikingly unconventional and far-fetched in style or appearance; odd

► A fungus, usually of the class Ascomycetes, that grows symbiotically with algae,

4. Kilometer

► One that takes in everything available, as with the mind.

► A metric unit of length equal to 1,000 meters (0.62 mile).

► To take in by elaborate methods of deceit

► A movement or procedure involving skill and dexterity.

5. Protagonist

► The main character in a drama or other literary work.

► To stress or emphasize; intensify

► The drawing of a conclusion by reasoning; the act of deducing.

► The branch of biology that deals with animals and animal life, including the study of the structure, physiology, development, and classification of animals.

Common Core State Standard
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.

RESPIRATORY

Words in the News Quiz
5 Middle School Words

RESPIRATORY
DEFINITION: Relating to breathing.	FOUND IN THE NEWS: They weren’t warned to wear respiratory and other personal protection because the burning composite materials from the F-35 stealth fighter were releasing potentially harmful airborne particles and fibers, according to the lawsuit filed in U.S. District Court in Albuquerque. ►The Albuquerque Journal, 03/30/2026

RESPIRATORY

Words in the News Quiz5 Middle School Words

Words in the News Quiz
5 Middle School Words