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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 

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. Chronology

To grow well or luxuriantly; thrive

The arrangement of events in time

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

To swing indecisively from one course of action or opinion to another.


2. Nebula

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

A metric unit of length equal to 1,000 meters (0.62 mile).

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

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


3. Silhouette

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

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

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

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


4. Mutation

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

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

Consuming or eager to consume great amounts of food; ravenous.

To rejoice greatly; be jubilant or triumphant


5. Deduction

To rejoice greatly; be jubilant or triumphant

The distribution of energy emitted by a radiant source, arranged in order of wavelengths.

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

To move in waves or with a smooth, wavelike motion.


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