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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 

BOON

DEFINITION:
A thing that is helpful or beneficial.

FOUND IN THE NEWS:
A Miami World’s Fair would potentially result in a big tourism boon for the state and region, including the Florida Keys.
The Key West Citizen, 01/26/2026

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. Strategy

A disorderly commotion or disturbance.

The science and art of using all the forces of a nation to execute approved plans as effectively as possible during peace or war.

The food-conducting tissue of vascular plants, consisting of sieve tubes, fibers, parenchyma, and sclereids.

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


2. Introspection

Self-examination.

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

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

In a deplorable state of distress or misfortune; miserable.


3. Jaunty

An alteration or change, as in nature, form, or quality.

Having a buoyant or self-confident air; brisk.

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

A conventional, formulaic, and oversimplified conception, opinion, or image.


4. Ultraviolet

A prohibition by a government on certain or all trade with a foreign nation

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

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


5. Dialogue

Being without or almost without hope

Conversation between characters in a drama or narrative

The main character in a drama or other literary work.

Similarity in some respects between things that are otherwise dissimilar.


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