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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 

SIMLUATED

DEFINITION:
Made to look like or have the features of something else.

FOUND IN THE NEWS:
Here’s the full simluated injury report:
The Boston Herald, 02/02/2026

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. Suffrage

The right or privilege of voting; franchise.

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

Any of various nonplacental mammals, including kangaroos, opossums, bandicoots, and wombats, found principally in Australia and the Americas.

The systematic procedure by which a complex or scientific task is accomplished.


2. Metaphor

The systematic procedure by which a complex or scientific task is accomplished.

A prohibition by a government on certain or all trade with a foreign nation

One thing conceived as representing another; a symbol.

Of, relating to, or occurring in the night


3. Yacht

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

A diffuse mass of interstellar dust or gas or both, visible as luminous patches or areas of darkness

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

Conversation between characters in a drama or narrative


4. Virtuoso

Conversation between characters in a drama or narrative

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

A person with masterly skill or technique in the arts.

Inspiring awe, admiration, or wonder


5. Mutation

A cult or religious movement, a group sharing particular (often unorthodox) political and/or religious beliefs.

Incorrectness of reasoning or belief

An alteration or change, as in nature, form, or quality.

To proclaim publicly


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