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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 

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. Suffrage

The right or privilege of voting; franchise.

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

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.

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


2. Rainforest

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

A schedule of prices or fees.

A picture or decorative design made by setting small colored pieces, as of stone or tile, into a surface.

To grow well or luxuriantly; thrive


3. Repose

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

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

To move in waves or with a smooth, wavelike motion.

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


4. Guerrilla

Inspiring awe, admiration, or wonder

A member of an irregular, usually indigenous military or paramilitary unit operating in small bands in occupied territory to harass and undermine the enemy

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

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


5. Nocturnal

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

Having a buoyant or self-confident air; brisk.

Of, relating to, or occurring in the night

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


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