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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 

MISMANAGE

DEFINITION:
To organize or control something badly; to manage incompetently or dishonestly.

FOUND IN THE NEWS:
Grants had been mismanaged, he stated, and he questioned payments made to CEO Tim Bedwell’s wife, Michele, and her business partner, Adam Kent.
The Las Vegas Review-Journal, 11/24/2025

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. Marsupial

A dense evergreen forest occupying a tropical region with an annual rainfall of at least 100 inches.

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

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

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


2. Cower

Inspiring awe, admiration, or wonder

To cringe in fear

Being without or almost without hope

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


3. Gargoyle

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

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

A grotesque ornamental figure or projection.

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. Deign

The locus of points for which the sum of the distances from each point to two fixed points is equal

Consuming or eager to consume great amounts of food; ravenous.

To condescend to give or grant

An alteration or change, as in nature, form, or quality.


5. Tumult

A state of uncertainty or perplexity.

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

A teacher and guide in spiritual and philosophical matters.

A disorderly commotion or disturbance.


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