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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. Dialogue

An ammunition belt, worn over the shoulder, having loops or pockets for cartridges.

Similarity in some respects between things that are otherwise dissimilar.

A teacher and guide in spiritual and philosophical matters.

Conversation between characters in a drama or narrative


2. Chronology

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

The arrangement of events in time

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

An embankment built to prevent flooding


3. Boycott

An embankment built to prevent flooding

Being without or almost without hope

Incorrectness of reasoning or belief

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


4. Spectrum

A grotesque ornamental figure or projection.

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

To swing indecisively from one course of action or opinion to another.

A closed plane figure bounded by three or more line segments.


5. Undulate

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

One that speaks for, represents, or advocates

A person with masterly skill or technique in the arts.

The repetition of the same sounds or of the same kinds of sounds at the beginning of words or in stressed syllables


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