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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 

RESPONSE

DEFINITION:
An answer to a question or a reaction to something.

FOUND IN THE NEWS:
“And the response right away was ‘Sure!’”
The Reading Eagle, 09/07/2026

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

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

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

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

A person with masterly skill or technique in the arts.


2. Camouflage

A person with masterly skill or technique in the arts.

A teacher and guide in spiritual and philosophical matters.

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

The method or result of concealing personnel or equipment from an enemy by making them appear to be part of the natural surroundings


3. Suffrage

Using or marked by the use of few words; terse or concise.

To grow well or luxuriantly; thrive

The supporting and water-conducting tissue of vascular plants, consisting primarily of tracheids and vessels; woody tissue.

The right or privilege of voting; franchise.


4. Lichen

To move back or away from a limit, point, or mark

The science and art of using all the forces of a nation to execute approved plans as effectively as possible during peace or war.

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

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


5. Impertinent

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

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

A movement or procedure involving skill and dexterity.

To take in by elaborate methods of deceit


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