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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 

ROOSTER TAIL

DEFINITION:
A high-arching spray (as of water, dust, or snow) thrown up behind a fast-moving motorboat, motor vehicle, or skier.

FOUND IN THE NEWS:
A second red flag was waved during the fifth race of the day when Rollin Transport got into a rooster tail on the turn of the first lap, resulting in the boat going onto its side before flipping.
The Key West Citizen, 11/10/2025

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. Solstice

Either of two times of the year when the sun is at its greatest distance from the celestial equator.

A proportional part or share.

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

Loud, noisy, and lacking in restraint or discipline


2. Vertebrate

Having a backbone or spinal column.

A person with masterly skill or technique in the arts.

To grow well or luxuriantly; thrive

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


3. Alliteration

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

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

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

Being without or almost without hope


4. Sacrifice

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

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

A preparation of a weakened or killed pathogen.

A weather phenomenon in the Eastern Pacific that is precisely equivalent to a hurricane.


5. Delegate

A weather phenomenon in the Eastern Pacific that is precisely equivalent to a hurricane.

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

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

A person authorized to act as representative for another; a deputy.


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