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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 

INBOUND

DEFINITION:
Travelling towards a particular point or place rather than leaving it.

FOUND IN THE NEWS:
The runway was closed and inbound and outbound traffic was delayed for a few hours.
The Key West Citizen, 06/22/2026

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. Chronology

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

A Y-shaped protein on the surface of B cells that is secreted into the blood or lymph in response to an antigenic stimulus

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

The arrangement of events in time


2. Strategy

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

Inspiring awe, admiration, or wonder

One that speaks for, represents, or advocates

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


3. Deign

To honor the memory of with a ceremony

Any of several rod-shaped bacteria, of the genus Salmonella, that cause food poisoning and other diseases.

To condescend to give or grant

Marked by hearty conviviality and good cheer.


4. Levee

Any of various nonplacental mammals, including kangaroos, opossums, bandicoots, and wombats, found principally in Australia and the Americas.

Either of two times of the year when the sun is at its greatest distance from the celestial equator.

An embankment built to prevent flooding

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


5. Plateau

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

To have a great ambition or ultimate goal

An elevated, comparatively level expanse of land; a tableland.

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


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