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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 

SIMLUATED

DEFINITION:
Made to look like or have the features of something else.

FOUND IN THE NEWS:
Here’s the full simluated injury report:
The Boston Herald, 02/02/2026

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. Pulverize

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

In a deplorable state of distress or misfortune; miserable.

To pound, crush, or grind to a powder or dust.

A teacher and guide in spiritual and philosophical matters.


2. Tsunami

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

Appropriateness of behavior or conduct

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

To abstain from or act together in abstaining from using, buying, or dealing with as an expression of protest or disfavor or as a means of coercion


3. Antibody

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

To abstain from or act together in abstaining from using, buying, or dealing with as an expression of protest or disfavor or as a means of coercion

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

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


4. Bizarre

Strikingly unconventional and far-fetched in style or appearance; odd

Having or demonstrating enthusiasm

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

Self-examination.


5. Renegade

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

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

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

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


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