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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. The branch of biology that deals with animals and animal life, including the study of the structure, physiology, development, and classification of animals.
Zoology
Renaissance
Nocturnal
Solstice
2. Having a buoyant or self-confident air; brisk.
Voracious
Jaunty
Suffrage
Quarantine
3. Sharing the same opinions or views; being in complete harmony or accord.
Unanimous
Virtuoso
Boisterous
Impertinent
4. A Y-shaped protein on the surface of B cells that is secreted into the blood or lymph in response to an antigenic stimulus
Boisterous
Impertinent
Aspire
Antibody
5. To swing indecisively from one course of action or opinion to another.
Commemorate
Decorum
Vacillate
Recede
