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This Week's Word In The News 

TESTY

DEFINITION:
Marked by impatience or ill humor.

FOUND IN THE NEWS:
Unions representing sheriff’s deputies, firefighters and lifeguards made a public pitch Thursday for more support in increasingly testy contract negotiations, releasing a half-hour documentary that highlighted their members’ harrowing tales from the first days of the fires.
The Los Angeles Times, 04/28/2025

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5 Middle School Words

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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. Analogy

Similarity in some respects between things that are otherwise dissimilar.

In a deplorable state of distress or misfortune; miserable.

To rejoice greatly; be jubilant or triumphant

Grossly offensive to decency or morality.


2. Dialogue

To rejoice greatly; be jubilant or triumphant

Grossly offensive to decency or morality.

An embankment built to prevent flooding

Conversation between characters in a drama or narrative


3. Symbiosis

The main character in a drama or other literary work.

A characteristic rate or rhythm of activity; a pace

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

A relationship of mutual benefit or dependence.


4. Guru

A teacher and guide in spiritual and philosophical matters.

A person authorized to act as representative for another; a deputy.

A proportional part or share.

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


5. Plateau

A proportional part or share.

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

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

An elevated, comparatively level expanse of land; a tableland.


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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.