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Words in the News Quiz
5 Middle School Words
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.
2. Either of two times of the year when the sun is at its greatest distance from the celestial equator.
3. 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.
4. A person authorized to act as representative for another; a deputy.
5. A conventional, formulaic, and oversimplified conception, opinion, or image.