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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 

BOON

DEFINITION:
A thing that is helpful or beneficial.

FOUND IN THE NEWS:
A Miami World’s Fair would potentially result in a big tourism boon for the state and region, including the Florida Keys.
The Key West Citizen, 01/26/2026

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. Guerrilla

One who habitually takes advantage of the generosity of others without making any useful return.

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

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.

The supporting and water-conducting tissue of vascular plants, consisting primarily of tracheids and vessels; woody tissue.


2. Aspire

The supporting and water-conducting tissue of vascular plants, consisting primarily of tracheids and vessels; woody tissue.

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

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

To have a great ambition or ultimate goal


3. Strategy

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

Incorrectness of reasoning or belief

The science and art of using all the forces of a nation to execute approved plans as effectively as possible during peace or war.

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


4. Ozone

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

An unstable, poisonous allotrope of oxygen.

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

To proclaim publicly


5. Voracious

To proclaim publicly

To cringe in fear

Exceeding the limits of propriety or good manners; improperly forward or bold

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


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