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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. Immune

Not subject to an obligation imposed on others; exempt.

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

A grotesque ornamental figure or projection.

To condescend to give or grant


2. Spectrum

One thing conceived as representing another; a symbol.

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

Consuming or eager to consume great amounts of food; ravenous.

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


3. Introspection

To pound, crush, or grind to a powder or dust.

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

Self-examination.

Having or demonstrating enthusiasm


4. Random

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

Having no specific pattern, purpose, or objective.

To have a great ambition or ultimate goal

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


5. Tariff

A schedule of prices or fees.

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

To cringe in fear

A state of uncertainty or perplexity.


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