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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 

OVERZEALOUS

DEFINITION:
Showing too much energy or enthusiasm in pursuit of a cause or objective.

FOUND IN THE NEWS:
Patrolmen’s Association, the city’s largest police union, attributed the encounter to an “overzealous poll worker who was complaining to the officer that the councilor shouldn’t have even been inside.”
The Boston Herald, 11/17/2025

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. Bizarre

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

A grotesque ornamental figure or projection.

A relationship of mutual benefit or dependence.

A poisonous substance, especially a protein, that is produced by living cells or organisms.


2. Participle

To grow well or luxuriantly; thrive

A form of a verb that in some languages, such as English, can function independently as an adjective.

Any of various nonplacental mammals, including kangaroos, opossums, bandicoots, and wombats, found principally in Australia and the Americas.

An ammunition belt, worn over the shoulder, having loops or pockets for cartridges.


3. Plateau

An ammunition belt, worn over the shoulder, having loops or pockets for cartridges.

The main character in a drama or other literary work.

One that is inconvenient, annoying, or vexatious; a bother.

An elevated, comparatively level expanse of land; a tableland.


4. Undulate

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

A person with masterly skill or technique in the arts.

A member of an irregular, usually indigenous military or paramilitary unit operating in small bands in occupied territory to harass and undermine the enemy

In a deplorable state of distress or misfortune; miserable.


5. Typhoon

A member of an irregular, usually indigenous military or paramilitary unit operating in small bands in occupied territory to harass and undermine the enemy

In a deplorable state of distress or misfortune; miserable.

Having a backbone or spinal column.

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


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