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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. Cower

To stress or emphasize; intensify

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

The distribution of energy emitted by a radiant source, arranged in order of wavelengths.

To cringe in fear


2. Deduction

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

The drawing of a conclusion by reasoning; the act of deducing.

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

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


3. Guerrilla

Similarity in some respects between things that are otherwise dissimilar.

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

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

To have a great ambition or ultimate goal


4. Exult

A schedule of prices or fees.

To rejoice greatly; be jubilant or triumphant

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

Selecting or employing individual elements from a variety of sources, systems, or styles


5. Mosaic

Selecting or employing individual elements from a variety of sources, systems, or styles

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

An intricate structure of interconnecting passages through which it is difficult to find one’s way; a maze.

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


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