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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. Undulate

To move in waves or with a smooth, wavelike motion.

In a deplorable state of distress or misfortune; miserable.

Loud, noisy, and lacking in restraint or discipline

Any of various relatively small sailing or motor-driven vessels used for pleasure cruises or racing.


2. Quota

A proportional part or share.

A movement or procedure involving skill and dexterity.

Inspiring awe, admiration, or wonder

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


3. Jovial

Marked by hearty conviviality and good cheer.

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

A disorderly commotion or disturbance.

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


4. Jaunty

A disorderly commotion or disturbance.

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

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

Having a buoyant or self-confident air; brisk.


5. Antibody

Grossly offensive to decency or morality.

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

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

To honor the memory of with a ceremony


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