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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 

TESTY

DEFINITION:
Marked by impatience or ill humor.

FOUND IN THE NEWS:
Unions representing sheriff’s deputies, firefighters and lifeguards made a public pitch Thursday for more support in increasingly testy contract negotiations, releasing a half-hour documentary that highlighted their members’ harrowing tales from the first days of the fires.
The Los Angeles Times, 04/28/2025

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. Jovial

Marked by hearty conviviality and good cheer.

The branch of biology that deals with animals and animal life, including the study of the structure, physiology, development, and classification of animals.

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

Having a buoyant or self-confident air; brisk.


2. Participle

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

Having a buoyant or self-confident air; brisk.

A picture or decorative design made by setting small colored pieces, as of stone or tile, into a surface.

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


3. Toxin

An intricate structure of interconnecting passages through which it is difficult to find one’s way; a maze.

A poisonous substance, especially a protein, that is produced by living cells or organisms.

A movement or procedure involving skill and dexterity.

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


4. Hieroglyphic

Being without or almost without hope

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

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 who habitually takes advantage of the generosity of others without making any useful return.


5. Tempo

The repetition of the same sounds or of the same kinds of sounds at the beginning of words or in stressed syllables

Not subject to an obligation imposed on others; exempt.

A characteristic rate or rhythm of activity; a pace

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


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