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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. Tariff

A poisonous substance, especially a protein, that is produced by living cells or organisms.

To proclaim publicly

A schedule of prices or fees.

The quality or state of being tranquil; serenity.


2. Plateau

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

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

The main character in a drama or other literary work.

Sharing the same opinions or views; being in complete harmony or accord.


3. Decorum

A disorderly commotion or disturbance.

Appropriateness of behavior or conduct

An unstable, poisonous allotrope of oxygen.

In a deplorable state of distress or misfortune; miserable.


4. Delegate

In a deplorable state of distress or misfortune; miserable.

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

Any of several rod-shaped bacteria, of the genus Salmonella, that cause food poisoning and other diseases.

A person authorized to act as representative for another; a deputy.


5. Fallacy

Incorrectness of reasoning or belief

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

A state of uncertainty or perplexity.

The method or result of concealing personnel or equipment from an enemy by making them appear to be part of the natural surroundings


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