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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. Tranquility

The right or privilege of voting; franchise.

The quality or state of being tranquil; serenity.

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

A diffuse mass of interstellar dust or gas or both, visible as luminous patches or areas of darkness


2. Vaccine

A preparation of a weakened or killed pathogen.

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

To proclaim publicly

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


3. Voracious

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

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

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

A form of a verb that in some languages, such as English, can function independently as an adjective.


4. Analogy

In a deplorable state of distress or misfortune; miserable.

Similarity in some respects between things that are otherwise dissimilar.

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

Grossly offensive to decency or morality.


5. Chronology

Not subject to an obligation imposed on others; exempt.

A proportional part or share.

The arrangement of events in time

A rebirth or revival.


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