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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 

RECOGNITION

DEFINITION:
Identifying someone or something previously encountered, or giving official approval, credit, or attention to an achievement.

FOUND IN THE NEWS:
“Mr. Simon, with the thanks of a grateful nation, community and state in recognition of your dedicated service and sacrifice and bravery to our country, it is an honor to award you your diploma. Congratulations,” Rasmusson said.
►The Forum, 11/16/2026

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. Hieroglyphic

► The systematic procedure by which a complex or scientific task is accomplished.

► A Y-shaped protein on the surface of B cells that is secreted into the blood or lymph in response to an antigenic stimulus

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


2. Guerrilla

► A rebirth or revival.

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

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

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


3. Accentuate

► To stress or emphasize; intensify

► To swing indecisively from one course of action or opinion to another.

► A drawing consisting of the outline of something, especially a human profile, filled in with a solid color.

► Not subject to an obligation imposed on others; exempt.


4. Boisterous

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

► Loud, noisy, and lacking in restraint or discipline

► To move back or away from a limit, point, or mark

► Appropriateness of behavior or conduct


5. Maneuver

► Any of several rod-shaped bacteria, of the genus Salmonella, that cause food poisoning and other diseases.

► A movement or procedure involving skill and dexterity.

► Inspiring awe, admiration, or wonder

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


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