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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 

RENDERING

DEFINITION:
Giving something to someone.

FOUND IN THE NEWS:
The replay booth has been working overtime in the Stanley Cup Final, and the officials charged with rendering the final verdicts probably won’t be getting any comped dinners in Las Vegas anytime soon.
The Las Vegas Review-Journal, 06/08/2026

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. Wretched

Self-examination.

A state of uncertainty or perplexity.

In a deplorable state of distress or misfortune; miserable.

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


2. Alliteration

A closed plane figure bounded by three or more line segments.

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

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.

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


3. Camouflage

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

A diffuse mass of interstellar dust or gas or both, visible as luminous patches or areas of darkness

The quality or state of being tranquil; serenity.

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


4. Despondent

A preparation of a weakened or killed pathogen.

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

A rebirth or revival.

Being without or almost without hope


5. Virtuoso

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

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

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

A person with masterly skill or technique in the arts.


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