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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. Hypocrisy

To honor the memory of with a ceremony

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

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

The right or privilege of voting; franchise.


2. Eclectic

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

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

To stress or emphasize; intensify

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


3. Bandolier

The science and art of using all the forces of a nation to execute approved plans as effectively as possible during peace or war.

To cringe in fear

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

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


4. Tundra

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

Consuming or eager to consume great amounts of food; ravenous.

To proclaim publicly

A treeless area between the icecap and the tree line of Arctic regions, having a permanently frozen subsoil and supporting low-growing vegetation


5. Fallacy

To condescend to give or grant

Incorrectness of reasoning or belief

An embankment built to prevent flooding

A preparation of a weakened or killed pathogen.


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