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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 

ARID

DEFINITION:
Being without moisture; extremely dry; parched.

FOUND IN THE NEWS:
The unpredictability of illegal fireworks make them dangerous in the arid desert climate, said Riddle, who is also bureau commander of Metro’s Northeast Area Command.
The Las Vegas Review-Journal, 06/30/2025

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. Tundra

Self-examination.

Any of several rod-shaped bacteria, of the genus Salmonella, that cause food poisoning and other diseases.

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

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


2. Plateau

The arrangement of events in time

An elevated, comparatively level expanse of land; a tableland.

The right or privilege of voting; franchise.

A preparation of a weakened or killed pathogen.


3. Recede

Harmful, malevolent, injurious. Harmfully cancerous.

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

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

To honor the memory of with a ceremony


4. Virtuoso

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

A characteristic rate or rhythm of activity; a pace

The science and art of using all the forces of a nation to execute approved plans as effectively as possible during peace or war.

A person with masterly skill or technique in the arts.


5. Unanimous

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

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

A proportional part or share.

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


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