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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 

PETITIONER

DEFINITION:
A person who pleads with a governmental institution for a legal remedy or a redress of grievances, through the use of a petition.

FOUND IN THE NEWS:
While presenting the citizens’ petition for debate at the April 11 Spring Town Meeting, petitioners argued that ICE operations in Plymouth have “created fear” and “disrupted lives” among the immigrant community, leading to what they call a distrust of local police.
The Boston Herald, 04/20/2026

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. Tumult

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

A disorderly commotion or disturbance.

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

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


2. Maneuver

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

To cringe in fear

To condescend to give or grant

A movement or procedure involving skill and dexterity.


3. Omnivore

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

The repetition of the same sounds or of the same kinds of sounds at the beginning of words or in stressed syllables

The quality or state of being tranquil; serenity.

An intricate structure of interconnecting passages through which it is difficult to find one’s way; a maze.


4. Random

In a deplorable state of distress or misfortune; miserable.

Having no specific pattern, purpose, or objective.

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

A cult or religious movement, a group sharing particular (often unorthodox) political and/or religious beliefs.


5. Nocturnal

A cult or religious movement, a group sharing particular (often unorthodox) political and/or religious beliefs.

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

A preparation of a weakened or killed pathogen.

Of, relating to, or occurring in the night


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