Thursday, September 02, 2010
Geo Quiz
►Cartoons for the Classroom
►Words in the News Vocabulary Quiz
►Front Page Talking Points
►Order Newspapers
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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 very large and destructive wave, generally caused by a tremendous disturbance in the ocean, such as an undersea earthquake or volcanic eruption.
► Quota
► Outrageous
► Tsunami
► Exult
2. The right or privilege of voting; franchise.
► Kilometer
► Chronology
► Suffrage
► Jovial
3. In a deplorable state of distress or misfortune; miserable.
► Guerrilla
► Wretched
► Labyrinth
► Lichen
4. 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.
► Lichen
► Voracious
► Alliteration
► Ultraviolet
5. A rebirth or revival.
► Quarantine
► Renaissance
► Mosaic
► Vertebrate