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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 practice of professing beliefs, feelings, or virtues that one does not hold or possess; falseness.
► Tundra
► Yacht
► Hypocrisy
► Eclectic
2. An elevated, comparatively level expanse of land; a tableland.
► Guerrilla
► Protagonist
► Plateau
► Kilometer
3. Of or relating to the range of invisible radiation wavelengths from about 4 nanometers, on the border of the x-ray region, to about 380 nanometers, just beyond the violet in the visible spectrum.
► Lichen
► Ultraviolet
► Spectrum
► Random
4. The quality or state of being tranquil; serenity.
► Tranquility
► Bandolier
► Decorum
► Dialogue
5. To take in by elaborate methods of deceit
► Dialogue
► Gargoyle
► Bamboozle
► Undulate
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Expressions
The Expressions page is published each Tuesday during the school year. The first Tuesday of the month the page is dedicated to work done by high school students. Entries are kept active for three months. The Expressions page partners with Cartridge Club.
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