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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. Rainforest

Inspiring awe, admiration, or wonder

To cringe in fear

The act of reasoning from factual knowledge or evidence.

A dense evergreen forest occupying a tropical region with an annual rainfall of at least 100 inches.


2. Pulverize

To grow well or luxuriantly; thrive

To have a great ambition or ultimate goal

Strikingly unconventional and far-fetched in style or appearance; odd

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


3. Renegade

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

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

One who rejects a religion, cause, allegiance, or group for another; a deserter.

Harmful, malevolent, injurious. Harmfully cancerous.


4. Dialogue

Conversation between characters in a drama or narrative

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

A Y-shaped protein on the surface of B cells that is secreted into the blood or lymph in response to an antigenic stimulus

A person authorized to act as representative for another; a deputy.


5. Renaissance

Marked by hearty conviviality and good cheer.

A rebirth or revival.

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

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


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