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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. Toxin

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

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

The right or privilege of voting; franchise.

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


2. Strategy

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

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

An alteration or change, as in nature, form, or quality.

The science and art of using all the forces of a nation to execute approved plans as effectively as possible during peace or war.


3. Silhouette

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

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

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

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


4. Guerrilla

Self-examination.

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

A movement or procedure involving skill and dexterity.

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


5. Lichen

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

An embankment built to prevent flooding

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

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


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