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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. Jaunty

► The practice of professing beliefs, feelings, or virtues that one does not hold or possess; falseness.

► One thing conceived as representing another; a symbol.

► Grossly offensive to decency or morality.

► Having a buoyant or self-confident air; brisk.

2. Salmonella

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

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

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

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

3. Unanimous

► A grotesque ornamental figure or projection.

► An ammunition belt, worn over the shoulder, having loops or pockets for cartridges.

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

► An intricate structure of interconnecting passages through which it is difficult to find one’s way; a maze.

4. Rainforest

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

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

► Of, relating to, or occurring in the night

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

5. Bizarre

► A state of uncertainty or perplexity.

► Similarity in some respects between things that are otherwise dissimilar.

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

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

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