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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. Pulverize

A drawing consisting of the outline of something, especially a human profile, filled in with a solid color.

To pound, crush, or grind to a powder or dust.

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

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


2. Aspire

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

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

To have a great ambition or ultimate goal

One thing conceived as representing another; a symbol.


3. Bandolier

An ammunition belt, worn over the shoulder, having loops or pockets for cartridges.

A person with masterly skill or technique in the arts.

To move back or away from a limit, point, or mark

A schedule of prices or fees.


4. Rainforest

To move back or away from a limit, point, or mark

A schedule of prices or fees.

The drawing of a conclusion by reasoning; the act of deducing.

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


5. Immune

Appropriateness of behavior or conduct

A metric unit of length equal to 1,000 meters (0.62 mile).

Not subject to an obligation imposed on others; exempt.

A characteristic rate or rhythm of activity; a pace


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