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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 

SHRAPNEL

DEFINITION:
Pieces of a bomb, shell, or bullet that has exploded.

FOUND IN THE NEWS:
The U.S. military exercise that shot live-fire artillery rounds over Interstate 5 on Saturday dropped metal shrapnel onto a California Highway Patrol protective services detail for Vice President JD Vance, agency officials said Sunday.
The Los Angeles Times, 10/20/2025

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. Random

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

A movement or procedure involving skill and dexterity.

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

Having no specific pattern, purpose, or objective.


2. Hypocrisy

One who rejects a religion, cause, allegiance, or group for another; a deserter.

To honor the memory of with a ceremony

To move in waves or with a smooth, wavelike motion.

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


3. Xylem

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

One that takes in everything available, as with the mind.

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

The supporting and water-conducting tissue of vascular plants, consisting primarily of tracheids and vessels; woody tissue.


4. Dialogue

Conversation between characters in a drama or narrative

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

Using or marked by the use of few words; terse or concise.

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


5. Zoology

The branch of biology that deals with animals and animal life, including the study of the structure, physiology, development, and classification of animals.

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 treeless area between the icecap and the tree line of Arctic regions, having a permanently frozen subsoil and supporting low-growing vegetation

Similarity in some respects between things that are otherwise dissimilar.


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