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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.
Symbiosis
Hologram
Marsupial
Random
2. A fungus, usually of the class Ascomycetes, that grows symbiotically with algae,
Laconic
Lichen
Ultraviolet
Metaphor
3. An embankment built to prevent flooding
Metaphor
Bamboozle
Stereotype
Levee
4. To have a great ambition or ultimate goal
Aspire
Flourish
Malignant
Light-Year
5. Enforced isolation or restriction of free movement imposed to prevent the spread of contagious disease.
Light-Year
Undulate
Quarantine
Mutation