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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 

RESPIRATORY

DEFINITION:
Relating to breathing.

FOUND IN THE NEWS:
They weren’t warned to wear respiratory and other personal protection because the burning composite materials from the F-35 stealth fighter were releasing potentially harmful airborne particles and fibers, according to the lawsuit filed in U.S. District Court in Albuquerque.
The Albuquerque Journal, 03/30/2026

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. Tundra

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

To cringe in fear

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

The science and art of using all the forces of a nation to execute approved plans as effectively as possible during peace or war.


2. Malignant

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

The science and art of using all the forces of a nation to execute approved plans as effectively as possible during peace or war.

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

Harmful, malevolent, injurious. Harmfully cancerous.


3. Heritage

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

To grow well or luxuriantly; thrive

Any of several rod-shaped bacteria, of the genus Salmonella, that cause food poisoning and other diseases.

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


4. Solstice

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

The food-conducting tissue of vascular plants, consisting of sieve tubes, fibers, parenchyma, and sclereids.

Sharing the same opinions or views; being in complete harmony or accord.

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


5. Labyrinth

Of or relating to the range of invisible radiation wavelengths from about 4 nanometers, on the border of the x-ray region, to about 380 nanometers, just beyond the violet in the visible spectrum.

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

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

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


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