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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. Incorrectness of reasoning or belief
2. The act of reasoning from factual knowledge or evidence.
Tempo
Boycott
Inference
Chronology
3. Being without or almost without hope
Virtuoso
Zoology
Despondent
Nebula
4. The practice of professing beliefs, feelings, or virtues that one does not hold or possess; falseness.
Hypocrisy
Alliteration
Exponent
Enthusiastic
5. 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.
Wretched
Ultraviolet
Labyrinth
Flourish