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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 

RESPIRATORY

DEFINITION:
Relating to breathing.

FOUND IN THE NEWS:
They weren’t warned to wear respiratory and other personal protection because the burning composite materials from the F-35 stealth fighter were releasing potentially harmful airborne particles and fibers, according to the lawsuit filed in U.S. District Court in Albuquerque.
The Albuquerque Journal, 03/30/2026

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. Yacht

A disorderly commotion or disturbance.

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

To pound, crush, or grind to a powder or dust.

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


2. Solstice

To honor the memory of with a ceremony

Either of two times of the year when the sun is at its greatest distance from the celestial equator.

The act of resting or the state of being at rest.

To swing indecisively from one course of action or opinion to another.


3. Strategy

To grow well or luxuriantly; thrive

The science and art of using all the forces of a nation to execute approved plans as effectively as possible during peace or war.

Marked by hearty conviviality and good cheer.

The quality or state of being tranquil; serenity.


4. Labyrinth

One that takes in everything available, as with the mind.

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

An unstable, poisonous allotrope of oxygen.

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


5. Bandolier

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

The distribution of energy emitted by a radiant source, arranged in order of wavelengths.

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

An ammunition belt, worn over the shoulder, having loops or pockets for cartridges.


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