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Geography in the News
Words In The News Quiz
Front Page Talking Points
This Week in History
Weekly News Quiz
News Quiz Archive
NewsBytes
e-Edition Plus
Cartoons for the Classroom
Super Skills for eEditions
Useful Classroom Links

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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. To cringe in fear
Delegate
Lichen
Unanimous
Cower
2. The repetition of the same sounds or of the same kinds of sounds at the beginning of words or in stressed syllables
Exponent
Guru
Bandolier
Alliteration
3. The pattern produced on a photosensitive medium that has been exposed by holography and then photographically developed.
Boisterous
Hologram
Vertebrate
Deign
4. One that is inconvenient, annoying, or vexatious; a bother.
Deign
Solstice
Pulverize
Nuisance
5. In a deplorable state of distress or misfortune; miserable.
Wretched
Camouflage
Commemorate
Mutation