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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. Exponent

A member of an irregular, usually indigenous military or paramilitary unit operating in small bands in occupied territory to harass and undermine the enemy

One that speaks for, represents, or advocates

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

In a deplorable state of distress or misfortune; miserable.


2. Gargoyle

In a deplorable state of distress or misfortune; miserable.

Self-examination.

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

A grotesque ornamental figure or projection.


3. Formidable

Strikingly unconventional and far-fetched in style or appearance; odd

Inspiring awe, admiration, or wonder

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

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


4. Enthusiastic

The right or privilege of voting; franchise.

Having or demonstrating enthusiasm

The arrangement of events in time

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


5. Quarantine

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

Grossly offensive to decency or morality.

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

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


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