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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 

TESTY

DEFINITION:
Marked by impatience or ill humor.

FOUND IN THE NEWS:
Unions representing sheriff’s deputies, firefighters and lifeguards made a public pitch Thursday for more support in increasingly testy contract negotiations, releasing a half-hour documentary that highlighted their members’ harrowing tales from the first days of the fires.
The Los Angeles Times, 04/28/2025

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. Jovial

Self-examination.

A very large and destructive wave, generally caused by a tremendous disturbance in the ocean, such as an undersea earthquake or volcanic eruption.

Marked by hearty conviviality and good cheer.

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


2. Ultraviolet

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

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

Of or relating to the range of invisible radiation wavelengths from about 4 nanometers, on the border of the x-ray region, to about 380 nanometers, just beyond the violet in the visible spectrum.

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


3. Xylem

The supporting and water-conducting tissue of vascular plants, consisting primarily of tracheids and vessels; woody tissue.

A movement or procedure involving skill and dexterity.

One that speaks for, represents, or advocates

A teacher and guide in spiritual and philosophical matters.


4. Exult

One that speaks for, represents, or advocates

A teacher and guide in spiritual and philosophical matters.

Having a backbone or spinal column.

To rejoice greatly; be jubilant or triumphant


5. Voracious

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

To condescend to give or grant

One that is inconvenient, annoying, or vexatious; a bother.

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


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