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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 teacher and guide in spiritual and philosophical matters.
Tumult
Hypocrisy
Omnivore
Guru
2. The systematic procedure by which a complex or scientific task is accomplished.
Alliteration
Levee
Technique
Deign
3. A treeless area between the icecap and the tree line of Arctic regions, having a permanently frozen subsoil and supporting low-growing vegetation
Virtuoso
Repose
Tundra
Nocturnal
4. Self-examination.
Introspection
Lichen
Sacrifice
Spectrum
5. To abstain from or act together in abstaining from using, buying, or dealing with as an expression of protest or disfavor or as a means of coercion
Sacrifice
Spectrum
Immune
Boycott