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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. Typhoon

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

Using or marked by the use of few words; terse or concise.

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

Having a buoyant or self-confident air; brisk.


2. Pulverize

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

A proportional part or share.

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

To move back or away from a limit, point, or mark


3. Virtuoso

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

Being without or almost without hope

To take in by elaborate methods of deceit

A person with masterly skill or technique in the arts.


4. Ozone

An unstable, poisonous allotrope of oxygen.

The right or privilege of voting; franchise.

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

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


5. Guru

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

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

A teacher and guide in spiritual and philosophical matters.

A relationship of mutual benefit or dependence.


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