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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 

BILLIONAIRE

DEFINITION:
One whose wealth is estimated at a billion or more dollars, pounds, or other monetary units.

FOUND IN THE NEWS:
About a dozen people took part in the “March for billionaires” on Saturday morning in San Francisco to raise awareness about the plight of the ultrarich.
The Los Angeles Times, 02/09/2026

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. Polygon

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

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

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

A closed plane figure bounded by three or more line segments.


2. Impertinent

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

Harmful, malevolent, injurious. Harmfully cancerous.

Exceeding the limits of propriety or good manners; improperly forward or bold

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


3. Dialogue

Grossly offensive to decency or morality.

To honor the memory of with a ceremony

Conversation between characters in a drama or narrative

The quality or state of being tranquil; serenity.


4. 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.

One that is inconvenient, annoying, or vexatious; a bother.

The act of reasoning from factual knowledge or evidence.

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


5. Hypocrisy

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

Forfeiture of something highly valued for the sake of one considered to have a greater value or claim.

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

Having no specific pattern, purpose, or objective.


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