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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. To cringe in fear
2. The main character in a drama or other literary work.
Recede
Nocturnal
Ozone
Protagonist
3. The practice of professing beliefs, feelings, or virtues that one does not hold or possess; falseness.
Typhoon
Voracious
Hypocrisy
Eclectic
4. A poisonous substance, especially a protein, that is produced by living cells or organisms.
Labyrinth
Toxin
Rainforest
Light-Year
5. To rejoice greatly; be jubilant or triumphant
Fallacy
Exult
Impertinent
Vacillate
