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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 

ADVERSE

DEFINITION:
Having a negative or harmful effect on something.

FOUND IN THE NEWS:
There was no evidence of “any adverse or harmful chemical or other exposures,” he wrote.
►The Boston Herald, 06/15/2026

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. Mosaic

► A preparation of a weakened or killed pathogen.

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

► A picture or decorative design made by setting small colored pieces, as of stone or tile, into a surface.

► Marked by hearty conviviality and good cheer.

2. Tranquility

► The main character in a drama or other literary work.

► Appropriateness of behavior or conduct

► Inspiring awe, admiration, or wonder

► The quality or state of being tranquil; serenity.

3. Antibody

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

► The act of reasoning from factual knowledge or evidence.

► To move in waves or with a smooth, wavelike motion.

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

4. Salmonella

► To move in waves or with a smooth, wavelike motion.

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

► A fungus, usually of the class Ascomycetes, that grows symbiotically with algae,

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

5. Random

► A person authorized to act as representative for another; a deputy.

► 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.

► The pattern produced on a photosensitive medium that has been exposed by holography and then photographically developed.

► Having no specific pattern, purpose, or objective.

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