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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 

MITIGATION

DEFINITION:
The action of reducing the severity, seriousness, or painfulness of something.

FOUND IN THE NEWS:
But after years of record investment by the state in such wildfire risk mitigation, two key money sources are drying up, potentially reducing the state’s annual budget for vegetation removal by hundreds of millions of dollars.
The Los Angeles Times, 06/01/2026

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. Hieroglyphic

A drawing consisting of the outline of something, especially a human profile, filled in with a solid color.

To have a great ambition or ultimate goal

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.

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


2. Solstice

To cringe in fear

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

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

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


3. Dialogue

Appropriateness of behavior or conduct

Conversation between characters in a drama or narrative

One who habitually takes advantage of the generosity of others without making any useful return.

Marked by hearty conviviality and good cheer.


4. Omnivore

Marked by hearty conviviality and good cheer.

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

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

One that takes in everything available, as with the mind.


5. Salmonella

Any of several rod-shaped bacteria, of the genus Salmonella, that cause food poisoning and other diseases.

To proclaim publicly

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

Having or demonstrating enthusiasm


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