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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. Labyrinth

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

An unstable, poisonous allotrope of oxygen.

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

One that is inconvenient, annoying, or vexatious; a bother.


2. Outrageous

Grossly offensive to decency or morality.

A very large and destructive wave, generally caused by a tremendous disturbance in the ocean, such as an undersea earthquake or volcanic eruption.

A disorderly commotion or disturbance.

In a deplorable state of distress or misfortune; miserable.


3. Dialogue

In a deplorable state of distress or misfortune; miserable.

Using or marked by the use of few words; terse or concise.

Conversation between characters in a drama or narrative

A proportional part or share.


4. Delegate

Having a buoyant or self-confident air; brisk.

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

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

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


5. Suffrage

To condescend to give or grant

A characteristic rate or rhythm of activity; a pace

The right or privilege of voting; franchise.

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


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