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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 

BILLIONAIRE

DEFINITION:
One whose wealth is estimated at a billion or more dollars, pounds, or other monetary units.

FOUND IN THE NEWS:
About a dozen people took part in the “March for billionaires” on Saturday morning in San Francisco to raise awareness about the plight of the ultrarich.
The Los Angeles Times, 02/09/2026

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. Quandary

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

The act of reasoning from factual knowledge or evidence.

A state of uncertainty or perplexity.

A dense evergreen forest occupying a tropical region with an annual rainfall of at least 100 inches.


2. Yacht

Of, relating to, or occurring in the night

In a deplorable state of distress or misfortune; miserable.

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

An elevated, comparatively level expanse of land; a tableland.


3. Vaccine

A characteristic rate or rhythm of activity; a pace

A preparation of a weakened or killed pathogen.

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

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


4. Tsunami

To rejoice greatly; be jubilant or triumphant

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

A very large and destructive wave, generally caused by a tremendous disturbance in the ocean, such as an undersea earthquake or volcanic eruption.

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. Lichen

To grow well or luxuriantly; thrive

The right or privilege of voting; franchise.

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.

A fungus, usually of the class Ascomycetes, that grows symbiotically with algae,


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