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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. Kilometer

A conventional, formulaic, and oversimplified conception, opinion, or image.

The arrangement of events in time

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

A preparation of a weakened or killed pathogen.


2. Pulverize

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

To pound, crush, or grind to a powder or dust.

Harmful, malevolent, injurious. Harmfully cancerous.

The drawing of a conclusion by reasoning; the act of deducing.


3. Spectrum

A very large and destructive wave, generally caused by a tremendous disturbance in the ocean, such as an undersea earthquake or volcanic eruption.

The distribution of energy emitted by a radiant source, arranged in order of wavelengths.

Of, relating to, or occurring in the night

To have a great ambition or ultimate goal


4. Xylem

The supporting and water-conducting tissue of vascular plants, consisting primarily of tracheids and vessels; woody tissue.

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

A characteristic rate or rhythm of activity; a pace

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


5. Embargo

A characteristic rate or rhythm of activity; a pace

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

The practice of professing beliefs, feelings, or virtues that one does not hold or possess; falseness.

A prohibition by a government on certain or all trade with a foreign nation


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