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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. Technique

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

A movement or procedure involving skill and dexterity.

The systematic procedure by which a complex or scientific task is accomplished.

An embankment built to prevent flooding


2. Sect

Being without or almost without hope

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

An unstable, poisonous allotrope of oxygen.

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


3. Pulverize

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

A metric unit of length equal to 1,000 meters (0.62 mile).

Of or relating to the range of invisible radiation wavelengths from about 4 nanometers, on the border of the x-ray region, to about 380 nanometers, just beyond the violet in the visible spectrum.

Of, relating to, or occurring in the night


4. Symbiosis

A relationship of mutual benefit or dependence.

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

One that speaks for, represents, or advocates

The main character in a drama or other literary work.


5. Vertebrate

Harmful, malevolent, injurious. Harmfully cancerous.

Having a backbone or spinal column.

To cringe in fear

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


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