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
► Being without or almost without hope
► Selecting or employing individual elements from a variety of sources, systems, or styles
► The act of resting or the state of being at rest.
► The main character in a drama or other literary work.
2. Renaissance
► A proportional part or share.
► The systematic procedure by which a complex or scientific task is accomplished.
3. Tariff
► A schedule of prices or fees.
► One that takes in everything available, as with the mind.
► A person authorized to act as representative for another; a deputy.
► To take in by elaborate methods of deceit
4. Antibody
► To take in by elaborate methods of deceit
► Using or marked by the use of few words; terse or concise.
► Harmful, malevolent, injurious. Harmfully cancerous.
5. Chronology
► To move in waves or with a smooth, wavelike motion.
► The drawing of a conclusion by reasoning; the act of deducing.
► A metric unit of length equal to 1,000 meters (0.62 mile).
► The arrangement of events in time
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.