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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 

SIMLUATED

DEFINITION:
Made to look like or have the features of something else.

FOUND IN THE NEWS:
Here’s the full simluated injury report:
The Boston Herald, 02/02/2026

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. Lichen

Incorrectness of reasoning or belief

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

A fungus, usually of the class Ascomycetes, that grows symbiotically with algae,

To have a great ambition or ultimate goal


2. Ellipse

A rebirth or revival.

Appropriateness of behavior or conduct

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

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


3. Bamboozle

One that is inconvenient, annoying, or vexatious; a bother.

One thing conceived as representing another; a symbol.

To take in by elaborate methods of deceit

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


4. Labyrinth

A prohibition by a government on certain or all trade with a foreign nation

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

Conversation between characters in a drama or narrative

Self-examination.


5. Unanimous

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

Of, relating to, or occurring in the night

Sharing the same opinions or views; being in complete harmony or accord.

A disorderly commotion or disturbance.


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