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. 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.
Ultraviolet
Flourish
Vaccine
Immune
2. Being without or almost without hope
Immune
Gargoyle
Despondent
Parasite
3. A prohibition by a government on certain or all trade with a foreign nation
Embargo
Quarantine
Ellipse
Undulate
4. To proclaim publicly
Ellipse
Undulate
Yacht
Divulge
5. Having or demonstrating enthusiasm
Antibody
Formidable
Enthusiastic
Unanimous
