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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 

SIMLUATED

DEFINITION:
Made to look like or have the features of something else.

FOUND IN THE NEWS:
Here’s the full simluated injury report:
The Boston Herald, 02/02/2026

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. Yacht

Strikingly unconventional and far-fetched in style or appearance; odd

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

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

Harmful, malevolent, injurious. Harmfully cancerous.


2. Ellipse

To rejoice greatly; be jubilant or triumphant

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

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

A grotesque ornamental figure or projection.


3. Xylem

A grotesque ornamental figure or projection.

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

One who habitually takes advantage of the generosity of others without making any useful return.

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


4. Heritage

To proclaim publicly

An elevated, comparatively level expanse of land; a tableland.

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

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


5. Alliteration

Appropriateness of behavior or conduct

The repetition of the same sounds or of the same kinds of sounds at the beginning of words or in stressed syllables

The quality or state of being tranquil; serenity.

Marked by hearty conviviality and good cheer.


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