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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 

DEPLETE

DEFINITION:
To use up or consume a limited resource.

FOUND IN THE NEWS:
Councilor Brian Worrell is sounding off after a Suffolk Superior Court judge ruled that if the footage became public before trial, it would deplete the jury pool in the manslaughter case against Boston police officer Nick O’Malley.
The Boston Herald, 07/27/2026

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. Sect

Having no specific pattern, purpose, or objective.

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

To grow well or luxuriantly; thrive

An embankment built to prevent flooding


2. Symbiosis

An embankment built to prevent flooding

An intricate structure of interconnecting passages through which it is difficult to find one’s way; a maze.

A teacher and guide in spiritual and philosophical matters.

A relationship of mutual benefit or dependence.


3. Hieroglyphic

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.

One thing conceived as representing another; a symbol.

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

A state of uncertainty or perplexity.


4. Hologram

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

A state of uncertainty or perplexity.

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

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


5. Deduction

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

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

To cringe in fear

To rejoice greatly; be jubilant or triumphant


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