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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 

PLOY

DEFINITION:
A cunning plan or action designed to turn a situation to one's own advantage.

FOUND IN THE NEWS:
“First of all, I think it’s important to recognize that the majority of the American people find this behavior deeply troubling,” said the 44th president, conceding that it does serve as an effective distraction and ploy for attention.
The Boston Herald, 02/16/2026

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. Maneuver

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.

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

A movement or procedure involving skill and dexterity.

Of, relating to, or occurring in the night


2. Mosaic

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

Something that is passed down from preceding generations; a tradition.

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

A cult or religious movement, a group sharing particular (often unorthodox) political and/or religious beliefs.


3. Exponent

One that speaks for, represents, or advocates

The systematic procedure by which a complex or scientific task is accomplished.

The main character in a drama or other literary work.

To proclaim publicly


4. Camouflage

A very large and destructive wave, generally caused by a tremendous disturbance in the ocean, such as an undersea earthquake or volcanic eruption.

The method or result of concealing personnel or equipment from an enemy by making them appear to be part of the natural surroundings

An elevated, comparatively level expanse of land; a tableland.

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


5. Fallacy

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

In a deplorable state of distress or misfortune; miserable.

Incorrectness of reasoning or belief

To take in by elaborate methods of deceit


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