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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 

PETITIONER

DEFINITION:
A person who pleads with a governmental institution for a legal remedy or a redress of grievances, through the use of a petition.

FOUND IN THE NEWS:
While presenting the citizens’ petition for debate at the April 11 Spring Town Meeting, petitioners argued that ICE operations in Plymouth have “created fear” and “disrupted lives” among the immigrant community, leading to what they call a distrust of local police.
The Boston Herald, 04/20/2026

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. Aspire

A member of an irregular, usually indigenous military or paramilitary unit operating in small bands in occupied territory to harass and undermine the enemy

The arrangement of events in time

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.

To have a great ambition or ultimate goal


2. Formidable

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

Inspiring awe, admiration, or wonder

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

To honor the memory of with a ceremony


3. Vaccine

To honor the memory of with a ceremony

A movement or procedure involving skill and dexterity.

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

A preparation of a weakened or killed pathogen.


4. Repose

Not subject to an obligation imposed on others; exempt.

To grow well or luxuriantly; thrive

Having a backbone or spinal column.

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


5. Recede

The supporting and water-conducting tissue of vascular plants, consisting primarily of tracheids and vessels; woody tissue.

Being without or almost without hope

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

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


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