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. An intricate structure of interconnecting passages through which it is difficult to find one’s way; a maze.
Strategy
Vaccine
Fallacy
Labyrinth
2. A poisonous substance, especially a protein, that is produced by living cells or organisms.
3. A schedule of prices or fees.
Levee
Tariff
Eclectic
Enthusiastic
4. The act of reasoning from factual knowledge or evidence.
Inference
Camouflage
Suffrage
Xylem
5. Consuming or eager to consume great amounts of food; ravenous.
Voracious
Malignant
Exult
Ozone
