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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 

PARLIAMENTARIAN

DEFINITION:
A consultant who advises the presiding officer and other officers, committees, and members on matters of parliamentary procedure.

FOUND IN THE NEWS:
Mia Cooper, a parliamentarian for the district, brought her daughter to district meetings and state-level education forums as the girl grew up.
The Los Angeles Times, 03/09/2026

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. Rainforest

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

To stress or emphasize; intensify

A grotesque ornamental figure or projection.

To pound, crush, or grind to a powder or dust.


2. Lichen

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

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

An embankment built to prevent flooding

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


3. Dialogue

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

Conversation between characters in a drama or narrative

To proclaim publicly

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.


4. Stereotype

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

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

An unstable, poisonous allotrope of oxygen.

One thing conceived as representing another; a symbol.


5. Tsunami

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

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

To condescend to give or grant

To cringe in fear


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