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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. Jaunty

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

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

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

Having a buoyant or self-confident air; brisk.


2. Hologram

One who habitually takes advantage of the generosity of others without making any useful return.

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

A characteristic rate or rhythm of activity; a pace

Not subject to an obligation imposed on others; exempt.


3. Tranquility

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

The quality or state of being tranquil; serenity.

Having a backbone or spinal column.

To condescend to give or grant


4. Participle

Appropriateness of behavior or conduct

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

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

An elevated, comparatively level expanse of land; a tableland.


5. Bizarre

Harmful, malevolent, injurious. Harmfully cancerous.

Having no specific pattern, purpose, or objective.

One thing conceived as representing another; a symbol.

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


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