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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 

ADVERSE

DEFINITION:
Having a negative or harmful effect on something.

FOUND IN THE NEWS:
There was no evidence of “any adverse or harmful chemical or other exposures,” he wrote.
The Boston Herald, 06/15/2026

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. Suffrage

The right or privilege of voting; franchise.

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

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

The repetition of the same sounds or of the same kinds of sounds at the beginning of words or in stressed syllables


2. Vaccine

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

A preparation of a weakened or killed pathogen.

To honor the memory of with a ceremony

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


3. Repose

Incorrectness of reasoning or belief

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

To rejoice greatly; be jubilant or triumphant

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


4. Enthusiastic

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

Having or demonstrating enthusiasm

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.

To grow well or luxuriantly; thrive


5. Tundra

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

To proclaim publicly

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

A state of uncertainty or perplexity.


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