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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. Malignant

An unstable, poisonous allotrope of oxygen.

Conversation between characters in a drama or narrative

Of or relating to the range of invisible radiation wavelengths from about 4 nanometers, on the border of the x-ray region, to about 380 nanometers, just beyond the violet in the visible spectrum.

Harmful, malevolent, injurious. Harmfully cancerous.


2. Mutation

A person with masterly skill or technique in the arts.

Of, relating to, or occurring in the night

An alteration or change, as in nature, form, or quality.

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


3. Quota

Any of various nonplacental mammals, including kangaroos, opossums, bandicoots, and wombats, found principally in Australia and the Americas.

A fungus, usually of the class Ascomycetes, that grows symbiotically with algae,

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 proportional part or share.


4. Chronology

A metric unit of length equal to 1,000 meters (0.62 mile).

The method or result of concealing personnel or equipment from an enemy by making them appear to be part of the natural surroundings

To take in by elaborate methods of deceit

The arrangement of events in time


5. Tumult

A disorderly commotion or disturbance.

A teacher and guide in spiritual and philosophical matters.

A conventional, formulaic, and oversimplified conception, opinion, or image.

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


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