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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. Exponent

One that speaks for, represents, or advocates

A proportional part or share.

A person authorized to act as representative for another; a deputy.

Conversation between characters in a drama or narrative


2. Embargo

A person authorized to act as representative for another; a deputy.

Conversation between characters in a drama or narrative

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

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


3. Camouflage

A relationship of mutual benefit or dependence.

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

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

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


4. Wretched

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

Appropriateness of behavior or conduct

The act of reasoning from factual knowledge or evidence.

In a deplorable state of distress or misfortune; miserable.


5. Guerrilla

A rebirth or revival.

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

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

A movement or procedure involving skill and dexterity.


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