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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 

OVERZEALOUS

DEFINITION:
Showing too much energy or enthusiasm in pursuit of a cause or objective.

FOUND IN THE NEWS:
Patrolmen’s Association, the city’s largest police union, attributed the encounter to an “overzealous poll worker who was complaining to the officer that the councilor shouldn’t have even been inside.”
The Boston Herald, 11/17/2025

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. Rainforest

One that speaks for, represents, or advocates

A dense evergreen forest occupying a tropical region with an annual rainfall of at least 100 inches.

Similarity in some respects between things that are otherwise dissimilar.

A state of uncertainty or perplexity.


2. Solstice

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

The distance that light travels in a vacuum in one year.

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

A grotesque ornamental figure or projection.


3. Kilometer

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

A form of a verb that in some languages, such as English, can function independently as an adjective.

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


4. Ellipse

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

Harmful, malevolent, injurious. Harmfully cancerous.

Enforced isolation or restriction of free movement imposed to prevent the spread of contagious disease.

The locus of points for which the sum of the distances from each point to two fixed points is equal


5. Decorum

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

A relationship of mutual benefit or dependence.

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

Appropriateness of behavior or conduct


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