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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. Fallacy

Incorrectness of reasoning or belief

The arrangement of events in time

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

A treeless area between the icecap and the tree line of Arctic regions, having a permanently frozen subsoil and supporting low-growing vegetation


2. Boisterous

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

A treeless area between the icecap and the tree line of Arctic regions, having a permanently frozen subsoil and supporting low-growing vegetation

A weather phenomenon in the Eastern Pacific that is precisely equivalent to a hurricane.

Loud, noisy, and lacking in restraint or discipline


3. Renaissance

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

A rebirth or revival.

To grow well or luxuriantly; thrive

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


4. Virtuoso

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

Something that is passed down from preceding generations; a tradition.

A cult or religious movement, a group sharing particular (often unorthodox) political and/or religious beliefs.

A person with masterly skill or technique in the arts.


5. Bizarre

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

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

A grotesque ornamental figure or projection.

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


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