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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 

ACQUAINTANCE

DEFINITION:
A person one knows slightly, but who is not a close friend.

FOUND IN THE NEWS:
When photographer Peter Turnley was just 20 years old, an acquaintance from the California Office of Economic Opportunity reached out to him with a question.
The Los Angeles Times, 12/01/2025

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. Light-Year

The distance that light travels in a vacuum in one year.

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

A state of uncertainty or perplexity.

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


2. Xylem

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

To honor the memory of with a ceremony

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

Forfeiture of something highly valued for the sake of one considered to have a greater value or claim.


3. Renaissance

An embankment built to prevent flooding

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

Having a backbone or spinal column.

A rebirth or revival.


4. Voracious

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

An unstable, poisonous allotrope of oxygen.

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

Of, relating to, or occurring in the night


5. Quarantine

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

The act of reasoning from factual knowledge or evidence.

The systematic procedure by which a complex or scientific task is accomplished.

Selecting or employing individual elements from a variety of sources, systems, or styles


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