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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 

DISABILITY

DEFINITION:
A physical, mental, cognitive, or developmental condition that makes it more difficult for a person to do certain tasks or participate in daily activities.

FOUND IN THE NEWS:
The agreement last week between Disability-rights groups and Secretary of State Shirley Weber follows an Oct. 2 ruling by U.S. Magistrate Judge Sallie Kim of San Francisco that the current system violates the Americans with Disabilities Act and other laws.
►San Francisco Chronicle, 11/02/2026

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. Impertinent

► The act of reasoning from factual knowledge or evidence.

► To grow well or luxuriantly; thrive

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

► 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.


2. Spectrum

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

► To take in by elaborate methods of deceit

► The distribution of energy emitted by a radiant source, arranged in order of wavelengths.

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


3. Participle

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

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

► Similarity in some respects between things that are otherwise dissimilar.

► A teacher and guide in spiritual and philosophical matters.


4. Boycott

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

► 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 cult or religious movement, a group sharing particular (often unorthodox) political and/or religious beliefs.

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


5. Silhouette

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

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

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

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


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