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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. Omnivore

A treeless area between the icecap and the tree line of Arctic regions, having a permanently frozen subsoil and supporting low-growing vegetation

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

To move back or away from a limit, point, or mark

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


2. Repose

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

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

Self-examination.

To stress or emphasize; intensify


3. Nocturnal

Of, relating to, or occurring in the night

Using or marked by the use of few words; terse or concise.

To have a great ambition or ultimate goal

Not subject to an obligation imposed on others; exempt.


4. Flourish

A characteristic rate or rhythm of activity; a pace

To grow well or luxuriantly; thrive

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

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


5. Vaccine

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

A preparation of a weakened or killed pathogen.

Similarity in some respects between things that are otherwise dissimilar.

Having a backbone or spinal column.


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