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- MIddle School Vocabulary Quiz Generator
- High School Vocabulary Quiz Generator
- Use The News: K-4 | 5-8 | 9-12
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Online Extras geared toward younger children
Generate your own quiz here!
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. Harmful, malevolent, injurious. Harmfully cancerous.
Malignant
Bandolier
Nuisance
Boycott
2. A weather phenomenon in the Eastern Pacific that is precisely equivalent to a hurricane.
Boycott
Deign
Typhoon
Maneuver
3. Using or marked by the use of few words; terse or concise.
Decorum
Virtuoso
Chronology
Laconic
4. Conversation between characters in a drama or narrative
Xylem
Tariff
Dialogue
Outrageous
5. The distance that light travels in a vacuum in one year.
Silhouette
Participle
Zoology
Light-Year
