Tuesday, January 06, 2009
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Geo Quiz
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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 prohibition by a government on certain or all trade with a foreign nation
2. Not subject to an obligation imposed on others; exempt.
Laconic
Outrageous
Sect
Immune
3. The act of reasoning from factual knowledge or evidence.
Undulate
Vacillate
Inference
Zoology
4. To move back or away from a limit, point, or mark
Deduction
Hologram
Chronology
Recede
5. A Y-shaped protein on the surface of B cells that is secreted into the blood or lymph in response to an antigenic stimulus
Quarantine
Antibody
Guerrilla
Polygon