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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 

PETITIONER

DEFINITION:
A person who pleads with a governmental institution for a legal remedy or a redress of grievances, through the use of a petition.

FOUND IN THE NEWS:
While presenting the citizens’ petition for debate at the April 11 Spring Town Meeting, petitioners argued that ICE operations in Plymouth have “created fear” and “disrupted lives” among the immigrant community, leading to what they call a distrust of local police.
The Boston Herald, 04/20/2026

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. Repose

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

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

A rebirth or revival.

The act of resting or the state of being at rest.


2. Wretched

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

In a deplorable state of distress or misfortune; miserable.

Any of various nonplacental mammals, including kangaroos, opossums, bandicoots, and wombats, found principally in Australia and the Americas.

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


3. Toxin

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

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

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

A poisonous substance, especially a protein, that is produced by living cells or organisms.


4. Symbiosis

A relationship of mutual benefit or dependence.

Any of various relatively small sailing or motor-driven vessels used for pleasure cruises or racing.

The practice of professing beliefs, feelings, or virtues that one does not hold or possess; falseness.

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


5. Hologram

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

Incorrectness of reasoning or belief

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

Grossly offensive to decency or morality.


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