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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 

PETITIONER

DEFINITION:
A person who pleads with a governmental institution for a legal remedy or a redress of grievances, through the use of a petition.

FOUND IN THE NEWS:
While presenting the citizens’ petition for debate at the April 11 Spring Town Meeting, petitioners argued that ICE operations in Plymouth have “created fear” and “disrupted lives” among the immigrant community, leading to what they call a distrust of local police.
The Boston Herald, 04/20/2026

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. Suffrage

The right or privilege of voting; franchise.

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

The food-conducting tissue of vascular plants, consisting of sieve tubes, fibers, parenchyma, and sclereids.

Not subject to an obligation imposed on others; exempt.


2. Alliteration

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

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

Any of various nonplacental mammals, including kangaroos, opossums, bandicoots, and wombats, found principally in Australia and the Americas.

A drawing consisting of the outline of something, especially a human profile, filled in with a solid color.


3. Wretched

A drawing consisting of the outline of something, especially a human profile, filled in with a solid color.

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

In a deplorable state of distress or misfortune; miserable.

The distance that light travels in a vacuum in one year.


4. Labyrinth

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

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 arrangement of events in time

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


5. Aspire

A very large and destructive wave, generally caused by a tremendous disturbance in the ocean, such as an undersea earthquake or volcanic eruption.

To have a great ambition or ultimate goal

A teacher and guide in spiritual and philosophical matters.

Having or demonstrating enthusiasm


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