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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 

ATMOSPHERIC

DEFINITION:
Anything related to the atmosphere, which is the layer of gases surrounding a planet. An atmospheric river is a narrow corridor concentrated water vapor.

FOUND IN THE NEWS:
A major atmospheric river storm — strong enough to potentially rival some of the extreme storms that have walloped Southern California in recent winters — is barreling toward the coast, raising the specter of damaging landslides and flooding across the region.
The Los Angeles Times, 02/10/2025

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. Hieroglyphic

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

Relating to a system of writing, such as that of ancient Egypt, in which pictorial symbols are used to represent meaning or sounds or a combination of meaning and sound.

A characteristic rate or rhythm of activity; a pace

Appropriateness of behavior or conduct


2. Nuisance

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

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

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

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


3. Quandary

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

A state of uncertainty or perplexity.

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

Having or demonstrating enthusiasm


4. Polygon

Having or demonstrating enthusiasm

Inspiring awe, admiration, or wonder

Of, relating to, or occurring in the night

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


5. Jovial

Grossly offensive to decency or morality.

Marked by hearty conviviality and good cheer.

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

The food-conducting tissue of vascular plants, consisting of sieve tubes, fibers, parenchyma, and sclereids.


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