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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 

BREACH

DEFINITION:
An act of breaking or failing to observe a law, agreement, or code of conduct.

FOUND IN THE NEWS:
The Cockroach Janata Party’s three leaders — Abhijeet Dipke, Saurav Das and Ashutosh Ranka — were freed on condition that they commit “no breach of peace for one year,” Ratna Singh, the movement’s legal director, said in a social media post.
►Associated Press, 10/12/2026

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. Guerrilla

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

► Being without or almost without hope

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

► To rejoice greatly; be jubilant or triumphant


2. Rainforest

► A rebirth or revival.

► A grotesque ornamental figure or projection.

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

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


3. Embargo

► The quality or state of being tranquil; serenity.

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

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

► A prohibition by a government on certain or all trade with a foreign nation


4. Ellipse

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

► A metric unit of length equal to 1,000 meters (0.62 mile).

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

► Having no specific pattern, purpose, or objective.


5. Accentuate

► Having no specific pattern, purpose, or objective.

► Using or marked by the use of few words; terse or concise.

► To stress or emphasize; intensify

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


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