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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. Salmonella

Conversation between characters in a drama or narrative

Any of several rod-shaped bacteria, of the genus Salmonella, that cause food poisoning and other diseases.

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

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


2. Labyrinth

An intricate structure of interconnecting passages through which it is difficult to find one’s way; a maze.

A drawing consisting of the outline of something, especially a human profile, filled in with a solid color.

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

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


3. Yacht

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

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

One thing conceived as representing another; a symbol.

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


4. Lichen

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

A proportional part or share.

The act of resting or the state of being at rest.

A fungus, usually of the class Ascomycetes, that grows symbiotically with algae,


5. Random

The quality or state of being tranquil; serenity.

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

Having no specific pattern, purpose, or objective.

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


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