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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. Laconic

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

Conversation between characters in a drama or narrative

A diffuse mass of interstellar dust or gas or both, visible as luminous patches or areas of darkness

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


2. Suffrage

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

The arrangement of events in time

The right or privilege of voting; franchise.

A movement or procedure involving skill and dexterity.


3. Voracious

Strikingly unconventional and far-fetched in style or appearance; odd

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

A state of uncertainty or perplexity.

Exceeding the limits of propriety or good manners; improperly forward or bold


4. Parasite

Exceeding the limits of propriety or good manners; improperly forward or bold

A relationship of mutual benefit or dependence.

A very large and destructive wave, generally caused by a tremendous disturbance in the ocean, such as an undersea earthquake or volcanic eruption.

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


5. Zoology

To swing indecisively from one course of action or opinion to another.

A member of an irregular, usually indigenous military or paramilitary unit operating in small bands in occupied territory to harass and undermine the enemy

Being without or almost without hope

The branch of biology that deals with animals and animal life, including the study of the structure, physiology, development, and classification of animals.


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