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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 swing indecisively from one course of action or opinion to another.
Hologram
Vaccine
Vacillate
Quota
2. The systematic procedure by which a complex or scientific task is accomplished.
Guerrilla
Tumult
Technique
Mosaic
3. To take in by elaborate methods of deceit
Symbiosis
Kilometer
Plateau
Bamboozle
4. The distance that light travels in a vacuum in one year.
Hypocrisy
Boisterous
Vertebrate
Light-Year
5. Enforced isolation or restriction of free movement imposed to prevent the spread of contagious disease.
Spectrum
Malignant
Xylem
Quarantine
