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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 

BILLIONAIRE

DEFINITION:
One whose wealth is estimated at a billion or more dollars, pounds, or other monetary units.

FOUND IN THE NEWS:
About a dozen people took part in the “March for billionaires” on Saturday morning in San Francisco to raise awareness about the plight of the ultrarich.
The Los Angeles Times, 02/09/2026

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. Symbiosis

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

A relationship of mutual benefit or dependence.

A person with masterly skill or technique in the arts.

A dense evergreen forest occupying a tropical region with an annual rainfall of at least 100 inches.


2. Levee

A dense evergreen forest occupying a tropical region with an annual rainfall of at least 100 inches.

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

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

An embankment built to prevent flooding


3. Dialogue

Conversation between characters in a drama or narrative

To move in waves or with a smooth, wavelike motion.

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

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


4. Analogy

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

Similarity in some respects between things that are otherwise dissimilar.

A state of uncertainty or perplexity.

Relating to a system of writing, such as that of ancient Egypt, in which pictorial symbols are used to represent meaning or sounds or a combination of meaning and sound.


5. Flourish

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

To grow well or luxuriantly; thrive

Not subject to an obligation imposed on others; exempt.

The drawing of a conclusion by reasoning; the act of deducing.


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