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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 

PETITIONER

DEFINITION:
A person who pleads with a governmental institution for a legal remedy or a redress of grievances, through the use of a petition.

FOUND IN THE NEWS:
While presenting the citizens’ petition for debate at the April 11 Spring Town Meeting, petitioners argued that ICE operations in Plymouth have “created fear” and “disrupted lives” among the immigrant community, leading to what they call a distrust of local police.
►The Boston Herald, 04/20/2026

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. Phloem

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

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

► 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.

► The supporting and water-conducting tissue of vascular plants, consisting primarily of tracheids and vessels; woody tissue.

2. Tumult

► The supporting and water-conducting tissue of vascular plants, consisting primarily of tracheids and vessels; woody tissue.

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

► Harmful, malevolent, injurious. Harmfully cancerous.

► A disorderly commotion or disturbance.

3. Mosaic

► An unstable, poisonous allotrope of oxygen.

► A picture or decorative design made by setting small colored pieces, as of stone or tile, into a surface.

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

► To grow well or luxuriantly; thrive

4. Sect

► 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.

► Having or demonstrating enthusiasm

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

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

5. Heritage

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

► A member of an irregular, usually indigenous military or paramilitary unit operating in small bands in occupied territory to harass and undermine the enemy

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

► A person with masterly skill or technique in the arts.

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