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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. Boisterous

Loud, noisy, and lacking in restraint or discipline

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

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.

To condescend to give or grant


2. Eclectic

An alteration or change, as in nature, form, or quality.

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

Using or marked by the use of few words; terse or concise.

To honor the memory of with a ceremony


3. Tranquility

Having or demonstrating enthusiasm

The quality or state of being tranquil; serenity.

A metric unit of length equal to 1,000 meters (0.62 mile).

A Y-shaped protein on the surface of B cells that is secreted into the blood or lymph in response to an antigenic stimulus


4. Inference

A Y-shaped protein on the surface of B cells that is secreted into the blood or lymph in response to an antigenic stimulus

A person with masterly skill or technique in the arts.

A grotesque ornamental figure or projection.

The act of reasoning from factual knowledge or evidence.


5. Alliteration

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

A relationship of mutual benefit or dependence.

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

The repetition of the same sounds or of the same kinds of sounds at the beginning of words or in stressed syllables


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