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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 

PLOY

DEFINITION:
A cunning plan or action designed to turn a situation to one's own advantage.

FOUND IN THE NEWS:
“First of all, I think it’s important to recognize that the majority of the American people find this behavior deeply troubling,” said the 44th president, conceding that it does serve as an effective distraction and ploy for attention.
The Boston Herald, 02/16/2026

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. Light-Year

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

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

The distance that light travels in a vacuum in one year.

The right or privilege of voting; franchise.


2. Deduction

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

The arrangement of events in time

One thing conceived as representing another; a symbol.

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


3. Cower

To cringe in fear

An intricate structure of interconnecting passages through which it is difficult to find one’s way; a maze.

Having no specific pattern, purpose, or objective.

An embankment built to prevent flooding


4. Quarantine

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

A grotesque ornamental figure or projection.

A movement or procedure involving skill and dexterity.

An elevated, comparatively level expanse of land; a tableland.


5. Tariff

A movement or procedure involving skill and dexterity.

An elevated, comparatively level expanse of land; a tableland.

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

A schedule of prices or fees.


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