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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 

BREACH

DEFINITION:
An act of breaking or failing to observe a law, agreement, or code of conduct.

FOUND IN THE NEWS:
The Cockroach Janata Party’s three leaders — Abhijeet Dipke, Saurav Das and Ashutosh Ranka — were freed on condition that they commit “no breach of peace for one year,” Ratna Singh, the movement’s legal director, said in a social media post.
►Associated Press, 10/12/2026

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

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

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

► To honor the memory of with a ceremony

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

2. Bandolier

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

► An ammunition belt, worn over the shoulder, having loops or pockets for cartridges.

► A proportional part or share.

► Relating to a system of writing, such as that of ancient Egypt, in which pictorial symbols are used to represent meaning or sounds or a combination of meaning and sound.

3. Sacrifice

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

► 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.

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

4. Maneuver

► A very large and destructive wave, generally caused by a tremendous disturbance in the ocean, such as an undersea earthquake or volcanic eruption.

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

► A movement or procedure involving skill and dexterity.

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

5. Ozone

► Conversation between characters in a drama or narrative

► An unstable, poisonous allotrope of oxygen.

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

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

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