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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 

NICHE

DEFINITION:
A specialized segment of the market for a particular kind of product or service.

FOUND IN THE NEWS:
“The key is finding opportunities where local seaweed offers unique value, whether through niche markets or environmental benefits,” he said.
►The Key West Citizen, 09/08/2025

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. Hypocrisy

► A relationship of mutual benefit or dependence.

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

► Of, relating to, or occurring in the night

► Harmful, malevolent, injurious. Harmfully cancerous.

2. Immune

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

► To stress or emphasize; intensify

► To rejoice greatly; be jubilant or triumphant

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

3. Guerrilla

► Appropriateness of behavior or conduct

► A member of an irregular, usually indigenous military or paramilitary unit operating in small bands in occupied territory to harass and undermine the enemy

► A characteristic rate or rhythm of activity; a pace

► The quality or state of being tranquil; serenity.

4. Formidable

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

► In a deplorable state of distress or misfortune; miserable.

► Inspiring awe, admiration, or wonder

► The method or result of concealing personnel or equipment from an enemy by making them appear to be part of the natural surroundings

5. Polygon

► Something that is passed down from preceding generations; a tradition.

► An embankment built to prevent flooding

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

► A person with masterly skill or technique in the arts.

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