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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. Either of two times of the year when the sun is at its greatest distance from the celestial equator.
Guerrilla
Jaunty
Solstice
Random
2. One thing conceived as representing another; a symbol.
Metaphor
Marsupial
Toxin
Silhouette
3. Harmful, malevolent, injurious. Harmfully cancerous.
Ozone
Malignant
Light-Year
Vacillate
4. An intricate structure of interconnecting passages through which it is difficult to find one’s way; a maze.
Labyrinth
Bamboozle
Ultraviolet
Kilometer
5. A state of uncertainty or perplexity.
Kilometer
Undulate
Quandary
Dialogue