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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. Formidable

Inspiring awe, admiration, or wonder

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

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

An embankment built to prevent flooding


2. Xylem

The supporting and water-conducting tissue of vascular plants, consisting primarily of tracheids and vessels; woody tissue.

A Y-shaped protein on the surface of B cells that is secreted into the blood or lymph in response to an antigenic stimulus

Grossly offensive to decency or morality.

The distribution of energy emitted by a radiant source, arranged in order of wavelengths.


3. Metaphor

One thing conceived as representing another; a symbol.

To have a great ambition or ultimate goal

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

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


4. Repose

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

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

The act of resting or the state of being at rest.

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


5. Eclectic

A grotesque ornamental figure or projection.

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

Selecting or employing individual elements from a variety of sources, systems, or styles

One who rejects a religion, cause, allegiance, or group for another; a deserter.


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