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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 

ACCESS

DEFINITION:
The freedom or ability to obtain or make use of something.

FOUND IN THE NEWS:
Restrict access to out-of-state entities, like federal agencies, private entities, or other states, unless required by a court order or judicial warrant.
The Duluth News Tribune, 08/24/2026

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. Polygon

Something that is passed down from preceding generations; a tradition.

To proclaim publicly

A schedule of prices or fees.

A closed plane figure bounded by three or more line segments.


2. Recede

To take in by elaborate methods of deceit

Having a backbone or spinal column.

To move back or away from a limit, point, or mark

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


3. Hologram

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

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

The pattern produced on a photosensitive medium that has been exposed by holography and then photographically developed.

Self-examination.


4. Exult

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

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

To rejoice greatly; be jubilant or triumphant

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


5. Ellipse

The arrangement of events in time

Having a buoyant or self-confident air; brisk.

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

A rebirth or revival.


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