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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 

OVERZEALOUS

DEFINITION:
Showing too much energy or enthusiasm in pursuit of a cause or objective.

FOUND IN THE NEWS:
Patrolmen’s Association, the city’s largest police union, attributed the encounter to an “overzealous poll worker who was complaining to the officer that the councilor shouldn’t have even been inside.”
The Boston Herald, 11/17/2025

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. Ultraviolet

The quality or state of being tranquil; serenity.

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

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.

To move back or away from a limit, point, or mark


2. Spectrum

Being without or almost without hope

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

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

Inspiring awe, admiration, or wonder


3. Guerrilla

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

A member of an irregular, usually indigenous military or paramilitary unit operating in small bands in occupied territory to harass and undermine the enemy

The arrangement of events in time

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


4. Inference

The act of reasoning from factual knowledge or evidence.

A conventional, formulaic, and oversimplified conception, opinion, or image.

Loud, noisy, and lacking in restraint or discipline

A proportional part or share.


5. Immune

Loud, noisy, and lacking in restraint or discipline

A proportional part or share.

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

Not subject to an obligation imposed on others; exempt.


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