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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. Boycott

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

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

Sharing the same opinions or views; being in complete harmony or accord.

The main character in a drama or other literary work.


2. Yacht

The main character in a drama or other literary work.

Not subject to an obligation imposed on others; exempt.

The food-conducting tissue of vascular plants, consisting of sieve tubes, fibers, parenchyma, and sclereids.

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


3. Ultraviolet

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.

An unstable, poisonous allotrope of oxygen.

The quality or state of being tranquil; serenity.

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


4. Commemorate

Similarity in some respects between things that are otherwise dissimilar.

To honor the memory of with a ceremony

A teacher and guide in spiritual and philosophical matters.

To have a great ambition or ultimate goal


5. Suffrage

The right or privilege of voting; franchise.

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

To cringe in fear

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


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