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DEFINITION:
Arousing strong attraction or interest.

FOUND IN THE NEWS:
Meta makes enticing claims for Muse’s capabilities.
►The Los Angeles Times, 10/05/2026

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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. Divulge

► To proclaim publicly

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

► To stress or emphasize; intensify

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

2. Participle

► Either of two times of the year when the sun is at its greatest distance from the celestial equator.

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

► A disorderly commotion or disturbance.

► A cult or religious movement, a group sharing particular (often unorthodox) political and/or religious beliefs.

3. Eclectic

► An embankment built to prevent flooding

► Loud, noisy, and lacking in restraint or discipline

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

► Of, relating to, or occurring in the night

4. Tundra

► Any of various relatively small sailing or motor-driven vessels used for pleasure cruises or racing.

► A diffuse mass of interstellar dust or gas or both, visible as luminous patches or areas of darkness

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

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

5. Quarantine

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

► The arrangement of events in time

► Relating to a system of writing, such as that of ancient Egypt, in which pictorial symbols are used to represent meaning or sounds or a combination of meaning and sound.

► Enforced isolation or restriction of free movement imposed to prevent the spread of contagious disease.

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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.