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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 

PARLAY

DEFINITION:
A single bet that links together two or more individual wagers

FOUND IN THE NEWS:
Then comes the parlay attempt.
The Key West Citizen, 01/05/2026

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. Spectrum

The quality or state of being tranquil; serenity.

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

Harmful, malevolent, injurious. Harmfully cancerous.

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


2. Despondent

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

Of or relating to the range of invisible radiation wavelengths from about 4 nanometers, on the border of the x-ray region, to about 380 nanometers, just beyond the violet in the visible spectrum.

A rebirth or revival.

Being without or almost without hope


3. Chronology

The arrangement of events in time

The branch of biology that deals with animals and animal life, including the study of the structure, physiology, development, and classification of animals.

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

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


4. Jovial

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

A drawing consisting of the outline of something, especially a human profile, filled in with a solid color.

Marked by hearty conviviality and good cheer.

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


5. Hieroglyphic

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.

One that takes in everything available, as with the mind.

The right or privilege of voting; franchise.

To have a great ambition or ultimate goal


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