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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 

MITIGATION

DEFINITION:
The action of reducing the severity, seriousness, or painfulness of something.

FOUND IN THE NEWS:
But after years of record investment by the state in such wildfire risk mitigation, two key money sources are drying up, potentially reducing the state’s annual budget for vegetation removal by hundreds of millions of dollars.
The Los Angeles Times, 06/01/2026

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. Participle

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

The locus of points for which the sum of the distances from each point to two fixed points is equal

Of or relating to the range of invisible radiation wavelengths from about 4 nanometers, on the border of the x-ray region, to about 380 nanometers, just beyond the violet in the visible spectrum.

A form of a verb that in some languages, such as English, can function independently as an adjective.


2. Pulverize

To pound, crush, or grind to a powder or dust.

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

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

The systematic procedure by which a complex or scientific task is accomplished.


3. Virtuoso

A person with masterly skill or technique in the arts.

The supporting and water-conducting tissue of vascular plants, consisting primarily of tracheids and vessels; woody tissue.

A conventional, formulaic, and oversimplified conception, opinion, or image.

Consuming or eager to consume great amounts of food; ravenous.


4. Parasite

The branch of biology that deals with animals and animal life, including the study of the structure, physiology, development, and classification of animals.

One who habitually takes advantage of the generosity of others without making any useful return.

The act of resting or the state of being at rest.

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


5. Unanimous

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

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

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

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


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