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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 

ACCESS

DEFINITION:
The freedom or ability to obtain or make use of something.

FOUND IN THE NEWS:
Restrict access to out-of-state entities, like federal agencies, private entities, or other states, unless required by a court order or judicial warrant.
The Duluth News Tribune, 08/24/2026

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. Hieroglyphic

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.

Grossly offensive to decency or morality.

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

Marked by hearty conviviality and good cheer.


2. Boisterous

Of, relating to, or occurring in the night

Loud, noisy, and lacking in restraint or discipline

To cringe in fear

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


3. Camouflage

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

Similarity in some respects between things that are otherwise dissimilar.

The quality or state of being tranquil; serenity.

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


4. Marsupial

Harmful, malevolent, injurious. Harmfully cancerous.

A rebirth or revival.

To condescend to give or grant

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


5. Jaunty

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

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

Sharing the same opinions or views; being in complete harmony or accord.

Having a buoyant or self-confident air; brisk.


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