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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 

ADVERSITY

DEFINITION:
A difficult or unpleasant situation.

FOUND IN THE NEWS:
Indeed, the Dodgers shrugged off the early adversity, with Ohtani allowing no further damage over a six-inning start; finishing his postseason pitching debut with nine strikeouts and four monumental scoreless frames after the second.
The Los Angeles Times, 10/06/2025

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. Labyrinth

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

Selecting or employing individual elements from a variety of sources, systems, or styles

Strikingly unconventional and far-fetched in style or appearance; odd

An intricate structure of interconnecting passages through which it is difficult to find one’s way; a maze.


2. Jaunty

An unstable, poisonous allotrope of oxygen.

A movement or procedure involving skill and dexterity.

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

Having a buoyant or self-confident air; brisk.


3. Phloem

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

The main character in a drama or other literary work.

A rebirth or revival.

Inspiring awe, admiration, or wonder


4. Delegate

A rebirth or revival.

Inspiring awe, admiration, or wonder

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

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


5. Guerrilla

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

To rejoice greatly; be jubilant or triumphant

Appropriateness of behavior or conduct

Either of two times of the year when the sun is at its greatest distance from the celestial equator.


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