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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 

ENTICING

DEFINITION:
Arousing strong attraction or interest.

FOUND IN THE NEWS:
Meta makes enticing claims for Muse’s capabilities.
►The Los Angeles Times, 10/05/2026

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. Decorum

► To have a great ambition or ultimate goal

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

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

► Appropriateness of behavior or conduct


2. Impertinent

► One who rejects a religion, cause, allegiance, or group for another; a deserter.

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

► A weather phenomenon in the Eastern Pacific that is precisely equivalent to a hurricane.

► Exceeding the limits of propriety or good manners; improperly forward or bold


3. Strategy

► The quality or state of being tranquil; serenity.

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

► An alteration or change, as in nature, form, or quality.

► The repetition of the same sounds or of the same kinds of sounds at the beginning of words or in stressed syllables


4. Tariff

► Loud, noisy, and lacking in restraint or discipline

► A schedule of prices or fees.

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

► A proportional part or share.


5. Tempo

► Not subject to an obligation imposed on others; exempt.

► A characteristic rate or rhythm of activity; a pace

► Self-examination.

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


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