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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

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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. Ultraviolet

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

To condescend to give or grant

To proclaim publicly

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.


2. Zoology

Marked by hearty conviviality and good cheer.

One that takes in everything available, as with the mind.

Grossly offensive to decency or morality.

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


3. Virtuoso

A person with masterly skill or technique in the arts.

Self-examination.

To swing indecisively from one course of action or opinion to another.

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


4. Wretched

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

To cringe in fear

In a deplorable state of distress or misfortune; miserable.

To have a great ambition or ultimate goal


5. Protagonist

The main character in a drama or other literary work.

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

The drawing of a conclusion by reasoning; the act of deducing.

The right or privilege of voting; franchise.


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