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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 

RENDERING

DEFINITION:
Giving something to someone.

FOUND IN THE NEWS:
The replay booth has been working overtime in the Stanley Cup Final, and the officials charged with rendering the final verdicts probably won’t be getting any comped dinners in Las Vegas anytime soon.
The Las Vegas Review-Journal, 06/08/2026

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. Random

Loud, noisy, and lacking in restraint or discipline

A very large and destructive wave, generally caused by a tremendous disturbance in the ocean, such as an undersea earthquake or volcanic eruption.

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

Having no specific pattern, purpose, or objective.


2. Phloem

The act of resting or the state of being at rest.

The food-conducting tissue of vascular plants, consisting of sieve tubes, fibers, parenchyma, and sclereids.

The act of reasoning from factual knowledge or evidence.

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


3. Nuisance

Conversation between characters in a drama or narrative

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

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

The distribution of energy emitted by a radiant source, arranged in order of wavelengths.


4. Camouflage

To move in waves or with a smooth, wavelike motion.

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

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

Appropriateness of behavior or conduct


5. Flourish

To abstain from or act together in abstaining from using, buying, or dealing with as an expression of protest or disfavor or as a means of coercion

To grow well or luxuriantly; thrive

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

A disorderly commotion or disturbance.


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