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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 

ANTICIPATE

DEFINITION:
Regard as probable; expect or predict.

FOUND IN THE NEWS:
Many economists still anticipate that a negative impact from trade wars will materialize this year for American workers.
The Boston Herald, 05/19/2025

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

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

The act of resting or the state of being at rest.

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

The distribution of energy emitted by a radiant source, arranged in order of wavelengths.


2. Polygon

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

The distribution of energy emitted by a radiant source, arranged in order of wavelengths.

A proportional part or share.

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


3. Exult

One who rejects a religion, cause, allegiance, or group for another; a deserter.

To rejoice greatly; be jubilant or triumphant

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

A grotesque ornamental figure or projection.


4. Vertebrate

Having a backbone or spinal column.

Having no specific pattern, purpose, or objective.

One thing conceived as representing another; a symbol.

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


5. Marsupial

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

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

Any of various nonplacental mammals, including kangaroos, opossums, bandicoots, and wombats, found principally in Australia and the Americas.

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


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