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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. Jaunty

To have a great ambition or ultimate goal

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

The quality or state of being tranquil; serenity.

Having a buoyant or self-confident air; brisk.


2. Boisterous

Conversation between characters in a drama or narrative

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

Loud, noisy, and lacking in restraint or discipline

A state of uncertainty or perplexity.


3. Parasite

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

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

One who habitually takes advantage of the generosity of others without making any useful return.

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


4. Wretched

In a deplorable state of distress or misfortune; miserable.

Appropriateness of behavior or conduct

A grotesque ornamental figure or projection.

A person with masterly skill or technique in the arts.


5. Strategy

One that is inconvenient, annoying, or vexatious; a bother.

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

A poisonous substance, especially a protein, that is produced by living cells or organisms.

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


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