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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 honor the memory of with a ceremony
Stereotype
Pulverize
Inference
Commemorate
2. Conversation between characters in a drama or narrative
Lichen
Tariff
Dialogue
Guerrilla
3. A disorderly commotion or disturbance.
Tumult
Quandary
Bizarre
Camouflage
4. One that speaks for, represents, or advocates
Bizarre
Camouflage
Gargoyle
Exponent
5. The act of resting or the state of being at rest.
