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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. Not subject to an obligation imposed on others; exempt.
Yacht
Immune
Maneuver
Formidable
2. To move in waves or with a smooth, wavelike motion.
Enthusiastic
Undulate
Wretched
Analogy
3. Being without or almost without hope
Suffrage
Despondent
Dialogue
Nuisance
4. Having a backbone or spinal column.
Nuisance
Commemorate
Voracious
Vertebrate
5. An intricate structure of interconnecting passages through which it is difficult to find one’s way; a maze.