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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. Laconic

An intricate structure of interconnecting passages through which it is difficult to find one’s way; a maze.

A person with masterly skill or technique in the arts.

To rejoice greatly; be jubilant or triumphant

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


2. Random

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

Having no specific pattern, purpose, or objective.

To proclaim publicly

A treeless area between the icecap and the tree line of Arctic regions, having a permanently frozen subsoil and supporting low-growing vegetation


3. Malignant

Harmful, malevolent, injurious. Harmfully cancerous.

The act of resting or the state of being at rest.

An embankment built to prevent flooding

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


4. Phloem

The arrangement of events in time

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

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

An unstable, poisonous allotrope of oxygen.


5. Participle

A form of a verb that in some languages, such as English, can function independently as an adjective.

One that speaks for, represents, or advocates

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

Self-examination.


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