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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 

MISMANAGE

DEFINITION:
To organize or control something badly; to manage incompetently or dishonestly.

FOUND IN THE NEWS:
Grants had been mismanaged, he stated, and he questioned payments made to CEO Tim Bedwell’s wife, Michele, and her business partner, Adam Kent.
The Las Vegas Review-Journal, 11/24/2025

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. Tundra

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

Harmful, malevolent, injurious. Harmfully cancerous.

The locus of points for which the sum of the distances from each point to two fixed points is equal

Appropriateness of behavior or conduct


2. Sacrifice

Having a backbone or spinal column.

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

Grossly offensive to decency or morality.

A fungus, usually of the class Ascomycetes, that grows symbiotically with algae,


3. Kilometer

Of, relating to, or occurring in the night

A metric unit of length equal to 1,000 meters (0.62 mile).

The right or privilege of voting; franchise.

To rejoice greatly; be jubilant or triumphant


4. Hologram

To rejoice greatly; be jubilant or triumphant

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

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

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


5. Tsunami

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

Consuming or eager to consume great amounts of food; ravenous.

The practice of professing beliefs, feelings, or virtues that one does not hold or possess; falseness.

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


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