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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 

PARLAY

DEFINITION:
A single bet that links together two or more individual wagers

FOUND IN THE NEWS:
Then comes the parlay attempt.
The Key West Citizen, 01/05/2026

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. Impertinent

A relationship of mutual benefit or dependence.

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

One who habitually takes advantage of the generosity of others without making any useful return.

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


2. Recede

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

The systematic procedure by which a complex or scientific task is accomplished.

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

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


3. Guerrilla

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

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

A closed plane figure bounded by three or more line segments.

Strikingly unconventional and far-fetched in style or appearance; odd


4. Despondent

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

Not subject to an obligation imposed on others; exempt.

Being without or almost without hope

Consuming or eager to consume great amounts of food; ravenous.


5. Fallacy

Incorrectness of reasoning or belief

A Y-shaped protein on the surface of B cells that is secreted into the blood or lymph in response to an antigenic stimulus

Something that is passed down from preceding generations; a tradition.

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


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