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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 

ADVERSE

DEFINITION:
Having a negative or harmful effect on something.

FOUND IN THE NEWS:
There was no evidence of “any adverse or harmful chemical or other exposures,” he wrote.
The Boston Herald, 06/15/2026

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. Deign

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

An alteration or change, as in nature, form, or quality.

Conversation between characters in a drama or narrative

To condescend to give or grant


2. Bizarre

Forfeiture of something highly valued for the sake of one considered to have a greater value or claim.

Having or demonstrating enthusiasm

A characteristic rate or rhythm of activity; a pace

Strikingly unconventional and far-fetched in style or appearance; odd


3. Bandolier

The main character in a drama or other literary work.

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

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

Having a buoyant or self-confident air; brisk.


4. Immune

Having a buoyant or self-confident air; brisk.

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

To have a great ambition or ultimate goal

Not subject to an obligation imposed on others; exempt.


5. Decorum

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

Appropriateness of behavior or conduct

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

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


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