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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 

ACCOST

DEFINITION:
To approach and speak to (someone) in an often challenging or aggressive way.

FOUND IN THE NEWS:
As their identities became more public, the operators were even accosted in their off hours.
►The Anchorage Daily News, 09/21/2026

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. Flourish

► A conventional, formulaic, and oversimplified conception, opinion, or image.

► To swing indecisively from one course of action or opinion to another.

► A poisonous substance, especially a protein, that is produced by living cells or organisms.

► To grow well or luxuriantly; thrive


2. Deduction

► A disorderly commotion or disturbance.

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

► An embankment built to prevent flooding

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


3. Virtuoso

► A person with masterly skill or technique in the arts.

► Of, relating to, or occurring in the night

► A state of uncertainty or perplexity.

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


4. Tundra

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

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

► A member of an irregular, usually indigenous military or paramilitary unit operating in small bands in occupied territory to harass and undermine the enemy

► Something that is passed down from preceding generations; a tradition.


5. Exponent

► The distance that light travels in a vacuum in one year.

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

► One that speaks for, represents, or advocates

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


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