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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. Vertebrate

Of, relating to, or occurring in the night

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

Having a backbone or spinal column.

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


2. Nebula

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

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

A Y-shaped protein on the surface of B cells that is secreted into the blood or lymph in response to an antigenic stimulus

A characteristic rate or rhythm of activity; a pace


3. Tundra

An embankment built to prevent flooding

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

A treeless area between the icecap and the tree line of Arctic regions, having a permanently frozen subsoil and supporting low-growing vegetation

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


4. Deduction

The quality or state of being tranquil; serenity.

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

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

The right or privilege of voting; franchise.


5. Omnivore

A form of a verb that in some languages, such as English, can function independently as an adjective.

To condescend to give or grant

Having no specific pattern, purpose, or objective.

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


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