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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 

MITIGATION

DEFINITION:
The action of reducing the severity, seriousness, or painfulness of something.

FOUND IN THE NEWS:
But after years of record investment by the state in such wildfire risk mitigation, two key money sources are drying up, potentially reducing the state’s annual budget for vegetation removal by hundreds of millions of dollars.
The Los Angeles Times, 06/01/2026

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. Sect

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

A grotesque ornamental figure or projection.

The drawing of a conclusion by reasoning; the act of deducing.

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


2. Typhoon

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

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

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

A diffuse mass of interstellar dust or gas or both, visible as luminous patches or areas of darkness


3. Unanimous

A diffuse mass of interstellar dust or gas or both, visible as luminous patches or areas of darkness

To have a great ambition or ultimate goal

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

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


4. Rainforest

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.

A proportional part or share.

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

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


5. Boisterous

Inspiring awe, admiration, or wonder

A relationship of mutual benefit or dependence.

Conversation between characters in a drama or narrative

Loud, noisy, and lacking in restraint or discipline


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