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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. Quota

The quality or state of being tranquil; serenity.

A proportional part or share.

A preparation of a weakened or killed pathogen.

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


2. Labyrinth

Not subject to an obligation imposed on others; exempt.

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

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

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


3. Quarantine

The branch of biology that deals with animals and animal life, including the study of the structure, physiology, development, and classification of animals.

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

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

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


4. Bandolier

The act of reasoning from factual knowledge or evidence.

A person with masterly skill or technique in the arts.

An ammunition belt, worn over the shoulder, having loops or pockets for cartridges.

Similarity in some respects between things that are otherwise dissimilar.


5. Boisterous

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

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

Appropriateness of behavior or conduct

Loud, noisy, and lacking in restraint or discipline


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