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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 

DEPLETE

DEFINITION:
To use up or consume a limited resource.

FOUND IN THE NEWS:
Councilor Brian Worrell is sounding off after a Suffolk Superior Court judge ruled that if the footage became public before trial, it would deplete the jury pool in the manslaughter case against Boston police officer Nick O’Malley.
The Boston Herald, 07/27/2026

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. Tempo

Incorrectness of reasoning or belief

In a deplorable state of distress or misfortune; miserable.

Using or marked by the use of few words; terse or concise.

A characteristic rate or rhythm of activity; a pace


2. Silhouette

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.

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

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

The quality or state of being tranquil; serenity.


3. Renegade

One who rejects a religion, cause, allegiance, or group for another; a deserter.

A rebirth or revival.

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

A dense evergreen forest occupying a tropical region with an annual rainfall of at least 100 inches.


4. Boycott

To abstain from or act together in abstaining from using, buying, or dealing with as an expression of protest or disfavor or as a means of coercion

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

The practice of professing beliefs, feelings, or virtues that one does not hold or possess; falseness.

Similarity in some respects between things that are otherwise dissimilar.


5. Immune

Not subject to an obligation imposed on others; exempt.

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

A preparation of a weakened or killed pathogen.

Marked by hearty conviviality and good cheer.


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