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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
► Heritage
► Cower
► Aspire
► Toxin
2. Any of various nonplacental mammals, including kangaroos, opossums, bandicoots, and wombats, found principally in Australia and the Americas.
► Marsupial
► Renaissance
► Mosaic
► Malignant
3. To proclaim publicly
► Divulge
► Ellipse
► Exult
► Vaccine
4. Grossly offensive to decency or morality.
► Accentuate
► Outrageous
► Jovial
► Tariff
5. A weather phenomenon in the Eastern Pacific that is precisely equivalent to a hurricane.
► Tariff
► Stereotype
► Unanimous
► Typhoon
