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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. Mutation

An alteration or change, as in nature, form, or quality.

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

An ammunition belt, worn over the shoulder, having loops or pockets for cartridges.

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


2. Participle

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

A state of uncertainty or perplexity.

Conversation between characters in a drama or narrative

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


3. Tranquility

The quality or state of being tranquil; serenity.

A conventional, formulaic, and oversimplified conception, opinion, or image.

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

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


4. Typhoon

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

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

Enforced isolation or restriction of free movement imposed to prevent the spread of contagious disease.

A weather phenomenon in the Eastern Pacific that is precisely equivalent to a hurricane.


5. Solstice

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

A relationship of mutual benefit or dependence.

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

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


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