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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. A member of an irregular, usually indigenous military or paramilitary unit operating in small bands in occupied territory to harass and undermine the enemy
Rainforest
Guerrilla
Boycott
Hologram
2. Exceeding the limits of propriety or good manners; improperly forward or bold
Hologram
Strategy
Xylem
Impertinent
3. One thing conceived as representing another; a symbol.
Exult
Plateau
Quandary
Metaphor
4. To proclaim publicly
Divulge
Vacillate
Light-Year
Decorum
5. One that is inconvenient, annoying, or vexatious; a bother.
Decorum
Embargo
Nuisance
Unanimous
