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. Guru
► An embankment built to prevent flooding
► One who rejects a religion, cause, allegiance, or group for another; a deserter.
► A teacher and guide in spiritual and philosophical matters.
2. Malignant
► Being without or almost without hope
► Harmful, malevolent, injurious. Harmfully cancerous.
► Conversation between characters in a drama or narrative
3. Protagonist
► A fungus, usually of the class Ascomycetes, that grows symbiotically with algae,
► A disorderly commotion or disturbance.
► The main character in a drama or other literary work.
4. Vaccine
► Of, relating to, or occurring in the night
► A preparation of a weakened or killed pathogen.
► A person with masterly skill or technique in the arts.
5. Light-Year
► A conventional, formulaic, and oversimplified conception, opinion, or image.
► The distance that light travels in a vacuum in one year.
► Similarity in some respects between things that are otherwise dissimilar.
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.