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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 

SKEWED

DEFINITION:
Distorted or biased; giving an unfair or misleading view of something.

FOUND IN THE NEWS:
He suggested the misnaming was intentional — and a reflection of the administration’s skewed priorities.
The Los Angeles Times, 06/23/2025

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. Aspire

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

To have a great ambition or ultimate goal

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

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


2. Exponent

A cult or religious movement, a group sharing particular (often unorthodox) political and/or religious beliefs.

The distance that light travels in a vacuum in one year.

One that speaks for, represents, or advocates

Using or marked by the use of few words; terse or concise.


3. Wretched

To cringe in fear

In a deplorable state of distress or misfortune; miserable.

Enforced isolation or restriction of free movement imposed to prevent the spread of contagious disease.

One thing conceived as representing another; a symbol.


4. Quota

A diffuse mass of interstellar dust or gas or both, visible as luminous patches or areas of darkness

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

A proportional part or share.

Selecting or employing individual elements from a variety of sources, systems, or styles


5. Xylem

Not subject to an obligation imposed on others; exempt.

One who habitually takes advantage of the generosity of others without making any useful return.

A drawing consisting of the outline of something, especially a human profile, filled in with a solid color.

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


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