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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 

ARID

DEFINITION:
Being without moisture; extremely dry; parched.

FOUND IN THE NEWS:
The unpredictability of illegal fireworks make them dangerous in the arid desert climate, said Riddle, who is also bureau commander of Metro’s Northeast Area Command.
The Las Vegas Review-Journal, 06/30/2025

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. Virtuoso

A person with masterly skill or technique in the arts.

An alteration or change, as in nature, form, or quality.

A cult or religious movement, a group sharing particular (often unorthodox) political and/or religious beliefs.

Forfeiture of something highly valued for the sake of one considered to have a greater value or claim.


2. Fallacy

A cult or religious movement, a group sharing particular (often unorthodox) political and/or religious beliefs.

Forfeiture of something highly valued for the sake of one considered to have a greater value or claim.

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

Incorrectness of reasoning or belief


3. Stereotype

Of, relating to, or occurring in the night

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

Any of various relatively small sailing or motor-driven vessels used for pleasure cruises or racing.

Harmful, malevolent, injurious. Harmfully cancerous.


4. Undulate

A Y-shaped protein on the surface of B cells that is secreted into the blood or lymph in response to an antigenic stimulus

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

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

A poisonous substance, especially a protein, that is produced by living cells or organisms.


5. Delegate

An embankment built to prevent flooding

A prohibition by a government on certain or all trade with a foreign nation

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

An unstable, poisonous allotrope of oxygen.


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