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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. Ultraviolet

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.

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

Conversation between characters in a drama or narrative

A movement or procedure involving skill and dexterity.


2. Hieroglyphic

Being without or almost without hope

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.

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

Something that is passed down from preceding generations; a tradition.


3. Voracious

Something that is passed down from preceding generations; a tradition.

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

A relationship of mutual benefit or dependence.

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


4. Jaunty

A cult or religious movement, a group sharing particular (often unorthodox) political and/or religious beliefs.

Having a buoyant or self-confident air; brisk.

A drawing consisting of the outline of something, especially a human profile, filled in with a solid color.

A weather phenomenon in the Eastern Pacific that is precisely equivalent to a hurricane.


5. Technique

Either of two times of the year when the sun is at its greatest distance from the celestial equator.

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

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

Of, relating to, or occurring in the night


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