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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. A schedule of prices or fees.
Deduction
Tariff
Malignant
Inference
2. The practice of professing beliefs, feelings, or virtues that one does not hold or possess; falseness.
Chronology
Wretched
Hypocrisy
Jaunty
3. To swing indecisively from one course of action or opinion to another.
Sect
Vacillate
Boycott
Dialogue
4. Inspiring awe, admiration, or wonder
Sacrifice
Formidable
Mosaic
Toxin
5. A very large and destructive wave, generally caused by a tremendous disturbance in the ocean, such as an undersea earthquake or volcanic eruption.
Gargoyle
Tsunami
Yacht
Nuisance
