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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. A characteristic rate or rhythm of activity; a pace
2. A very large and destructive wave, generally caused by a tremendous disturbance in the ocean, such as an undersea earthquake or volcanic eruption.
Tsunami
Polygon
Alliteration
Marsupial
3. Being without or almost without hope
Alliteration
Marsupial
Plateau
Despondent
4. The quality or state of being tranquil; serenity.
Decorum
Symbiosis
Vacillate
Tranquility
5. The food-conducting tissue of vascular plants, consisting of sieve tubes, fibers, parenchyma, and sclereids.
Ozone
Exponent
Inference
Phloem