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- MIddle School Vocabulary Quiz Generator
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- Use The News: K-4 | 5-8 | 9-12
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Middle School Quiz
Words in the News
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. The branch of biology that deals with animals and animal life, including the study of the structure, physiology, development, and classification of animals.
Undulate
Zoology
Silhouette
Wretched
2. Loud, noisy, and lacking in restraint or discipline
Wretched
Jaunty
Exult
Boisterous
3. Any of several rod-shaped bacteria, of the genus Salmonella, that cause food poisoning and other diseases.
Phloem
Vertebrate
Salmonella
Divulge
4. A schedule of prices or fees.
Tariff
Pulverize
Light-Year
Hypocrisy
5. Being without or almost without hope
Light-Year
Hypocrisy
Voracious
Despondent
