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Common Core State Standard
LS.CCS.4/5/6 Grades 3-12: Students are asked to determine the meaning of unknown and multiple-meaning words through multiple choice vocabulary quizzes. Quizzes are designed to help students demonstrate understanding of figurative language, word relationships and nuances in words, acquire and use accurately grade-appropriate general academic and domain-specific words, and gather vocabulary knowledge when considering a word or phrase important to comprehension or expression. Students are then asked to find the words within the newspaper and copy the sentence for context to its overall meaning or function in a sentence.
This Week's Word In The News 

PETITIONER

DEFINITION:
A person who pleads with a governmental institution for a legal remedy or a redress of grievances, through the use of a petition.

FOUND IN THE NEWS:
While presenting the citizens’ petition for debate at the April 11 Spring Town Meeting, petitioners argued that ICE operations in Plymouth have “created fear” and “disrupted lives” among the immigrant community, leading to what they call a distrust of local police.
The Boston Herald, 04/20/2026

Words in the News Quiz
5 Middle School Words

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. Renaissance

A closed plane figure bounded by three or more line segments.

To move in waves or with a smooth, wavelike motion.

A dense evergreen forest occupying a tropical region with an annual rainfall of at least 100 inches.

A rebirth or revival.


2. Yacht

Any of various relatively small sailing or motor-driven vessels used for pleasure cruises or racing.

Having no specific pattern, purpose, or objective.

To take in by elaborate methods of deceit

A form of a verb that in some languages, such as English, can function independently as an adjective.


3. Camouflage

Not subject to an obligation imposed on others; exempt.

The method or result of concealing personnel or equipment from an enemy by making them appear to be part of the natural surroundings

A schedule of prices or fees.

A weather phenomenon in the Eastern Pacific that is precisely equivalent to a hurricane.


4. Lichen

A very large and destructive wave, generally caused by a tremendous disturbance in the ocean, such as an undersea earthquake or volcanic eruption.

A fungus, usually of the class Ascomycetes, that grows symbiotically with algae,

The food-conducting tissue of vascular plants, consisting of sieve tubes, fibers, parenchyma, and sclereids.

An embankment built to prevent flooding


5. Ozone

An embankment built to prevent flooding

Similarity in some respects between things that are otherwise dissimilar.

Consuming or eager to consume great amounts of food; ravenous.

An unstable, poisonous allotrope of oxygen.


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