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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. One who habitually takes advantage of the generosity of others without making any useful return.
Parasite
Enthusiastic
Deduction
Pulverize
2. A metric unit of length equal to 1,000 meters (0.62 mile).
Deduction
Pulverize
Renaissance
Kilometer
3. Having a backbone or spinal column.
Vacillate
Vertebrate
Quarantine
Maneuver
4. Something that is passed down from preceding generations; a tradition.
Heritage
Boycott
Despondent
Dialogue
5. Relating to a system of writing, such as that of ancient Egypt, in which pictorial symbols are used to represent meaning or sounds or a combination of meaning and sound.
Hieroglyphic
Camouflage
Analogy
Sacrifice
