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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 

MITIGATION

DEFINITION:
The action of reducing the severity, seriousness, or painfulness of something.

FOUND IN THE NEWS:
But after years of record investment by the state in such wildfire risk mitigation, two key money sources are drying up, potentially reducing the state’s annual budget for vegetation removal by hundreds of millions of dollars.
The Los Angeles Times, 06/01/2026

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. Tariff

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

To honor the memory of with a ceremony

A schedule of prices or fees.

Having or demonstrating enthusiasm


2. Delegate

A state of uncertainty or perplexity.

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

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

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


3. Chronology

A poisonous substance, especially a protein, that is produced by living cells or organisms.

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

Loud, noisy, and lacking in restraint or discipline

The arrangement of events in time


4. Nebula

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

A disorderly commotion or disturbance.

To grow well or luxuriantly; thrive

A diffuse mass of interstellar dust or gas or both, visible as luminous patches or areas of darkness


5. Jovial

Marked by hearty conviviality and good cheer.

A closed plane figure bounded by three or more line segments.

Similarity in some respects between things that are otherwise dissimilar.

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


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