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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 pattern produced on a photosensitive medium that has been exposed by holography and then photographically developed.
► Guerrilla
► Tempo
► Hologram
► Kilometer
2. The practice of professing beliefs, feelings, or virtues that one does not hold or possess; falseness.
► Omnivore
► Hypocrisy
► Xylem
► Deign
3. An elevated, comparatively level expanse of land; a tableland.
► Plateau
► Toxin
► Camouflage
► Exult
4. An embankment built to prevent flooding
► Exult
► Wretched
► Levee
► Unanimous
5. The repetition of the same sounds or of the same kinds of sounds at the beginning of words or in stressed syllables
► Boisterous
► Typhoon
► Alliteration
► Immune