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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 

BOON

DEFINITION:
A thing that is helpful or beneficial.

FOUND IN THE NEWS:
A Miami World’s Fair would potentially result in a big tourism boon for the state and region, including the Florida Keys.
The Key West Citizen, 01/26/2026

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. Nocturnal

Relating to a system of writing, such as that of ancient Egypt, in which pictorial symbols are used to represent meaning or sounds or a combination of meaning and sound.

One that is inconvenient, annoying, or vexatious; a bother.

A metric unit of length equal to 1,000 meters (0.62 mile).

Of, relating to, or occurring in the night


2. Impertinent

Loud, noisy, and lacking in restraint or discipline

Self-examination.

The pattern produced on a photosensitive medium that has been exposed by holography and then photographically developed.

Exceeding the limits of propriety or good manners; improperly forward or bold


3. Tumult

A disorderly commotion or disturbance.

Any of several rod-shaped bacteria, of the genus Salmonella, that cause food poisoning and other diseases.

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

To grow well or luxuriantly; thrive


4. Lichen

To grow well or luxuriantly; thrive

Similarity in some respects between things that are otherwise dissimilar.

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

Inspiring awe, admiration, or wonder


5. Vaccine

Enforced isolation or restriction of free movement imposed to prevent the spread of contagious disease.

A preparation of a weakened or killed pathogen.

To honor the memory of with a ceremony

To abstain from or act together in abstaining from using, buying, or dealing with as an expression of protest or disfavor or as a means of coercion


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