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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 

PLOY

DEFINITION:
A cunning plan or action designed to turn a situation to one's own advantage.

FOUND IN THE NEWS:
“First of all, I think it’s important to recognize that the majority of the American people find this behavior deeply troubling,” said the 44th president, conceding that it does serve as an effective distraction and ploy for attention.
The Boston Herald, 02/16/2026

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. Bandolier

Having no specific pattern, purpose, or objective.

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

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

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


2. Quarantine

To have a great ambition or ultimate goal

A state of uncertainty or perplexity.

A Y-shaped protein on the surface of B cells that is secreted into the blood or lymph in response to an antigenic stimulus

Enforced isolation or restriction of free movement imposed to prevent the spread of contagious disease.


3. Rainforest

Self-examination.

Being without or almost without hope

Conversation between characters in a drama or narrative

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


4. Sect

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

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

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

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


5. Gargoyle

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

To stress or emphasize; intensify

A grotesque ornamental figure or projection.

An elevated, comparatively level expanse of land; a tableland.


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