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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 

BREACH

DEFINITION:
An act of breaking or failing to observe a law, agreement, or code of conduct.

FOUND IN THE NEWS:
The Cockroach Janata Party’s three leaders — Abhijeet Dipke, Saurav Das and Ashutosh Ranka — were freed on condition that they commit “no breach of peace for one year,” Ratna Singh, the movement’s legal director, said in a social media post.
►Associated Press, 10/12/2026

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. Yacht

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

► Grossly offensive to decency or morality.

► Something that is passed down from preceding generations; a tradition.

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


2. Impertinent

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

► Forfeiture of something highly valued for the sake of one considered to have a greater value or claim.

► To grow well or luxuriantly; thrive

► To cringe in fear


3. Wretched

► To grow well or luxuriantly; thrive

► To cringe in fear

► One who rejects a religion, cause, allegiance, or group for another; a deserter.

► In a deplorable state of distress or misfortune; miserable.


4. Embargo

► The repetition of the same sounds or of the same kinds of sounds at the beginning of words or in stressed syllables

► The practice of professing beliefs, feelings, or virtues that one does not hold or possess; falseness.

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

► Enforced isolation or restriction of free movement imposed to prevent the spread of contagious disease.


5. Chronology

► The arrangement of events in time

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

► Selecting or employing individual elements from a variety of sources, systems, or styles

► A characteristic rate or rhythm of activity; a pace


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