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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. Ozone

An unstable, poisonous allotrope of oxygen.

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

Not subject to an obligation imposed on others; exempt.

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


2. Quarantine

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

To grow well or luxuriantly; thrive

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

Any of various relatively small sailing or motor-driven vessels used for pleasure cruises or racing.


3. Delegate

An embankment built to prevent flooding

Any of various nonplacental mammals, including kangaroos, opossums, bandicoots, and wombats, found principally in Australia and the Americas.

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

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


4. Outrageous

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

To honor the memory of with a ceremony

The locus of points for which the sum of the distances from each point to two fixed points is equal

Grossly offensive to decency or morality.


5. Despondent

An elevated, comparatively level expanse of land; a tableland.

Being without or almost without hope

Loud, noisy, and lacking in restraint or discipline

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


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