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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. A conventional, formulaic, and oversimplified conception, opinion, or image.
► Tsunami
► Stereotype
► Marsupial
► Analogy
2. 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.
► Analogy
► Participle
► Bizarre
► Ultraviolet
3. The method or result of concealing personnel or equipment from an enemy by making them appear to be part of the natural surroundings
► Solstice
► Camouflage
► Immune
► Strategy
4. A disorderly commotion or disturbance.
► Strategy
► Toxin
► Gargoyle
► Tumult
5. A metric unit of length equal to 1,000 meters (0.62 mile).
► Recede
► Impertinent
► Alliteration
► Kilometer