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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 

PARLIAMENTARIAN

DEFINITION:
A consultant who advises the presiding officer and other officers, committees, and members on matters of parliamentary procedure.

FOUND IN THE NEWS:
Mia Cooper, a parliamentarian for the district, brought her daughter to district meetings and state-level education forums as the girl grew up.
The Los Angeles Times, 03/09/2026

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. Quarantine

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

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

To cringe in fear

A weather phenomenon in the Eastern Pacific that is precisely equivalent to a hurricane.


2. Bizarre

Strikingly unconventional and far-fetched in style or appearance; odd

Harmful, malevolent, injurious. Harmfully cancerous.

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

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


3. Deign

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

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

An unstable, poisonous allotrope of oxygen.

To condescend to give or grant


4. Stereotype

The science and art of using all the forces of a nation to execute approved plans as effectively as possible during peace or war.

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

A characteristic rate or rhythm of activity; a pace

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


5. Zoology

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

One who habitually takes advantage of the generosity of others without making any useful return.

The branch of biology that deals with animals and animal life, including the study of the structure, physiology, development, and classification of animals.

Sharing the same opinions or views; being in complete harmony or accord.


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