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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 

BOON

DEFINITION:
A thing that is helpful or beneficial.

FOUND IN THE NEWS:
A Miami World’s Fair would potentially result in a big tourism boon for the state and region, including the Florida Keys.
The Key West Citizen, 01/26/2026

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. Boisterous

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

A movement or procedure involving skill and dexterity.

Loud, noisy, and lacking in restraint or discipline

Something that is passed down from preceding generations; a tradition.


2. Bizarre

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

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

Strikingly unconventional and far-fetched in style or appearance; odd

Having a buoyant or self-confident air; brisk.


3. Flourish

To grow well or luxuriantly; thrive

Having a backbone or spinal column.

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

To take in by elaborate methods of deceit


4. Renaissance

A rebirth or revival.

A teacher and guide in spiritual and philosophical matters.

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

Of or relating to the range of invisible radiation wavelengths from about 4 nanometers, on the border of the x-ray region, to about 380 nanometers, just beyond the violet in the visible spectrum.


5. Random

A grotesque ornamental figure or projection.

Having no specific pattern, purpose, or objective.

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

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


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