Login | Manage My Profile | Manage My Subscription | Place a Classified Ad | Contact Us | Site Map | Archives | NEW: eEdition

Generate your own quiz here!

Quiz Options 

Middle School High School

By words   By Definitions

5 10 15 20 Questions


 

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. Any of various relatively small sailing or motor-driven vessels used for pleasure cruises or racing.

Repose
Divulge
Suffrage
Yacht


2. A rebirth or revival.

Inference
Gargoyle
Bandolier
Renaissance


3. To grow well or luxuriantly; thrive

Metaphor
Flourish
Laconic
Kilometer


4. A teacher and guide in spiritual and philosophical matters.

Embargo
Symbiosis
Guru
Hologram


5. Having a buoyant or self-confident air; brisk.

Ozone
Salmonella
Jaunty
Toxin


Get more Quizzes 

Middle School High School   By Word    By Definition   5 10 15 20 Questions

THIS WEEK'S WORD IN THE NEWS 

TUMULTUOUS

DEFINITION:
Noisy and disorderly.

FOUND IN THE NEWS:
That whole process was a little bit tumultuous as it unfolded day to day. But the application itself and some of the proposals were truly something that would be very progressive.
NJ.com, 08/30/2010