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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 

RESPIRATORY

DEFINITION:
Relating to breathing.

FOUND IN THE NEWS:
They weren’t warned to wear respiratory and other personal protection because the burning composite materials from the F-35 stealth fighter were releasing potentially harmful airborne particles and fibers, according to the lawsuit filed in U.S. District Court in Albuquerque.
The Albuquerque Journal, 03/30/2026

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. Accentuate

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

To stress or emphasize; intensify

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

A proportional part or share.


2. Mutation

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

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

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

Harmful, malevolent, injurious. Harmfully cancerous.


3. Guerrilla

A member of an irregular, usually indigenous military or paramilitary unit operating in small bands in occupied territory to harass and undermine the enemy

The branch of biology that deals with animals and animal life, including the study of the structure, physiology, development, and classification of animals.

Being without or almost without hope

A state of uncertainty or perplexity.


4. Virtuoso

A person with masterly skill or technique in the arts.

Loud, noisy, and lacking in restraint or discipline

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

To proclaim publicly


5. Ellipse

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

To proclaim publicly

Grossly offensive to decency or morality.

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


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