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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. Conversation between characters in a drama or narrative
► Ultraviolet
► Bamboozle
► Dialogue
► Random
2. Being without or almost without hope
► Metaphor
► Technique
► Despondent
► Marsupial
3. The locus of points for which the sum of the distances from each point to two fixed points is equal
► Tundra
► Ellipse
► Strategy
► Quarantine
4. A prohibition by a government on certain or all trade with a foreign nation
► Quarantine
► Deign
► Zoology
► Embargo
5. Any of several rod-shaped bacteria, of the genus Salmonella, that cause food poisoning and other diseases.
► Tempo
► Decorum
► Salmonella
► Tumult