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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 

SEGREGATED

DEFINITION:
Kept separate or treated differently according to race, sex, religion, etc.

FOUND IN THE NEWS:
The other flag, dubbed “History,” is a nod to the Black experience in St. Petersburg, which was once heavily segregated.
The Key West Citizen, 10/13/2025

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. Spectrum

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

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

The distribution of energy emitted by a radiant source, arranged in order of wavelengths.

To proclaim publicly


2. Levee

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.

The act of resting or the state of being at rest.

A characteristic rate or rhythm of activity; a pace

An embankment built to prevent flooding


3. Cower

Similarity in some respects between things that are otherwise dissimilar.

To cringe in fear

The arrangement of events in time

The act of reasoning from factual knowledge or evidence.


4. Light-Year

The distance that light travels in a vacuum in one year.

The practice of professing beliefs, feelings, or virtues that one does not hold or possess; falseness.

To have a great ambition or ultimate goal

One thing conceived as representing another; a symbol.


5. Sacrifice

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

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

A very large and destructive wave, generally caused by a tremendous disturbance in the ocean, such as an undersea earthquake or volcanic eruption.

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


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