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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 

IMPROBABLE

DEFINITION:
Unlikely to take place under the circumstances or in the usual course of events.

FOUND IN THE NEWS:
That’s where Democratic candidates are trying to accomplish the improbable by flipping a pair of Trump-friendly congressional seats and carving into Republicans’ narrow 218 to 213 majority in the U.S. House of Representatives.
The Key West Citizen-Herald, 03/31/2025

Words in the News Quiz
5 Middle School Words

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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. Tumult

A state of uncertainty or perplexity.

The quality or state of being tranquil; serenity.

A disorderly commotion or disturbance.

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


2. Jovial

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

In a deplorable state of distress or misfortune; miserable.

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

Marked by hearty conviviality and good cheer.


3. Rainforest

To stress or emphasize; intensify

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

A weather phenomenon in the Eastern Pacific that is precisely equivalent to a hurricane.

Incorrectness of reasoning or belief


4. Tundra

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

A form of a verb that in some languages, such as English, can function independently as an adjective.

Inspiring awe, admiration, or wonder

Enforced isolation or restriction of free movement imposed to prevent the spread of contagious disease.


5. Nuisance

Enforced isolation or restriction of free movement imposed to prevent the spread of contagious disease.

An unstable, poisonous allotrope of oxygen.

One that is inconvenient, annoying, or vexatious; a bother.

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


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