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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. Sacrifice

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

An embankment built to prevent flooding

Conversation between characters in a drama or narrative

A movement or procedure involving skill and dexterity.


2. Introspection

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

Self-examination.

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

Marked by hearty conviviality and good cheer.


3. Decorum

Appropriateness of behavior or conduct

To have a great ambition or ultimate goal

An ammunition belt, worn over the shoulder, having loops or pockets for cartridges.

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


4. Tariff

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

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.

A schedule of prices or fees.

The arrangement of events in time


5. Despondent

A person authorized to act as representative for another; a deputy.

Being without or almost without hope

Enforced isolation or restriction of free movement imposed to prevent the spread of contagious disease.

The systematic procedure by which a complex or scientific task is accomplished.


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