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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 

BREACH

DEFINITION:
An act of breaking or failing to observe a law, agreement, or code of conduct.

FOUND IN THE NEWS:
The Cockroach Janata Party’s three leaders — Abhijeet Dipke, Saurav Das and Ashutosh Ranka — were freed on condition that they commit “no breach of peace for one year,” Ratna Singh, the movement’s legal director, said in a social media post.
►Associated Press, 10/12/2026

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. Malignant

► Conversation between characters in a drama or narrative

► To proclaim publicly

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

► Harmful, malevolent, injurious. Harmfully cancerous.


2. Camouflage

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

► An unstable, poisonous allotrope of oxygen.

► To abstain from or act together in abstaining from using, buying, or dealing with as an expression of protest or disfavor or as a means of coercion

► Forfeiture of something highly valued for the sake of one considered to have a greater value or claim.


3. Eclectic

► Forfeiture of something highly valued for the sake of one considered to have a greater value or claim.

► To rejoice greatly; be jubilant or triumphant

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

► The arrangement of events in time


4. Accentuate

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

► To stress or emphasize; intensify

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

► To take in by elaborate methods of deceit


5. Flourish

► To cringe in fear

► To grow well or luxuriantly; thrive

► A schedule of prices or fees.

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


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