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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. Phloem

The food-conducting tissue of vascular plants, consisting of sieve tubes, fibers, parenchyma, and sclereids.

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

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

Forfeiture of something highly valued for the sake of one considered to have a greater value or claim.


2. Bamboozle

To take in by elaborate methods of deceit

Conversation between characters in a drama or narrative

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

A teacher and guide in spiritual and philosophical matters.


3. Nocturnal

A teacher and guide in spiritual and philosophical matters.

A conventional, formulaic, and oversimplified conception, opinion, or image.

Of, relating to, or occurring in the night

To honor the memory of with a ceremony


4. Laconic

The act of reasoning from factual knowledge or evidence.

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

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

A grotesque ornamental figure or projection.


5. Chronology

The arrangement of events in time

The distance that light travels in a vacuum in one year.

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

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


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