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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 

SIMLUATED

DEFINITION:
Made to look like or have the features of something else.

FOUND IN THE NEWS:
Here’s the full simluated injury report:
The Boston Herald, 02/02/2026

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. Camouflage

A movement or procedure involving skill and dexterity.

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

An embankment built to prevent flooding

Having a buoyant or self-confident air; brisk.


2. Omnivore

Having a buoyant or self-confident air; brisk.

Similarity in some respects between things that are otherwise dissimilar.

Marked by hearty conviviality and good cheer.

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


3. Immune

To cringe in fear

Not subject to an obligation imposed on others; exempt.

The distribution of energy emitted by a radiant source, arranged in order of wavelengths.

A relationship of mutual benefit or dependence.


4. Plateau

Using or marked by the use of few words; terse or concise.

Being without or almost without hope

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

A closed plane figure bounded by three or more line segments.


5. Phloem

The supporting and water-conducting tissue of vascular plants, consisting primarily of tracheids and vessels; woody tissue.

Of, relating to, or occurring in the night

The food-conducting tissue of vascular plants, consisting of sieve tubes, fibers, parenchyma, and sclereids.

Conversation between characters in a drama or narrative


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