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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 

PIGMENT

DEFINITION:
A substance that imparts black, white, or a color to other materials.

FOUND IN THE NEWS:
Pea-soup green pigment floated where the water met the shore on Eagle Nest Lake on Tuesday, while bright, turquoise pigment stained the south boat ramp.
The Albuquerque Journal, 10/27/2025

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. Spectrum

Any of various nonplacental mammals, including kangaroos, opossums, bandicoots, and wombats, found principally in Australia and the Americas.

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.

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

The arrangement of events in time


2. Unanimous

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

Incorrectness of reasoning or belief

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

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


3. Kilometer

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

To take in by elaborate methods of deceit

A metric unit of length equal to 1,000 meters (0.62 mile).

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


4. Virtuoso

A person with masterly skill or technique in the arts.

The right or privilege of voting; franchise.

To have a great ambition or ultimate goal

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


5. Ultraviolet

To have a great ambition or ultimate goal

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

A closed plane figure bounded by three or more line segments.

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.


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