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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 

DEPLETE

DEFINITION:
To use up or consume a limited resource.

FOUND IN THE NEWS:
Councilor Brian Worrell is sounding off after a Suffolk Superior Court judge ruled that if the footage became public before trial, it would deplete the jury pool in the manslaughter case against Boston police officer Nick O’Malley.
The Boston Herald, 07/27/2026

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. Light-Year

The distance that light travels in a vacuum in one year.

Selecting or employing individual elements from a variety of sources, systems, or styles

Exceeding the limits of propriety or good manners; improperly forward or bold

A preparation of a weakened or killed pathogen.


2. Protagonist

Exceeding the limits of propriety or good manners; improperly forward or bold

A preparation of a weakened or killed pathogen.

To move in waves or with a smooth, wavelike motion.

The main character in a drama or other literary work.


3. Ozone

To swing indecisively from one course of action or opinion to another.

An unstable, poisonous allotrope of oxygen.

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

A treeless area between the icecap and the tree line of Arctic regions, having a permanently frozen subsoil and supporting low-growing vegetation


4. Recede

A treeless area between the icecap and the tree line of Arctic regions, having a permanently frozen subsoil and supporting low-growing vegetation

To condescend to give or grant

Not subject to an obligation imposed on others; exempt.

To move back or away from a limit, point, or mark


5. Silhouette

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

Of or relating to the range of invisible radiation wavelengths from about 4 nanometers, on the border of the x-ray region, to about 380 nanometers, just beyond the violet in the visible spectrum.

A schedule of prices or fees.

A person with masterly skill or technique in the arts.


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