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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 

ADVERSE

DEFINITION:
Having a negative or harmful effect on something.

FOUND IN THE NEWS:
There was no evidence of “any adverse or harmful chemical or other exposures,” he wrote.
The Boston Herald, 06/15/2026

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. Hypocrisy

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

The method or result of concealing personnel or equipment from an enemy by making them appear to be part of the natural surroundings

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

To rejoice greatly; be jubilant or triumphant


2. Flourish

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

To stress or emphasize; intensify

To grow well or luxuriantly; thrive

The pattern produced on a photosensitive medium that has been exposed by holography and then photographically developed.


3. Boisterous

Relating to a system of writing, such as that of ancient Egypt, in which pictorial symbols are used to represent meaning or sounds or a combination of meaning and sound.

Loud, noisy, and lacking in restraint or discipline

One that is inconvenient, annoying, or vexatious; a bother.

To take in by elaborate methods of deceit


4. Nocturnal

The systematic procedure by which a complex or scientific task is accomplished.

Of, relating to, or occurring in the night

Sharing the same opinions or views; being in complete harmony or accord.

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


5. Bandolier

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

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

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

A conventional, formulaic, and oversimplified conception, opinion, or image.


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