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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. Pulverize

One that speaks for, represents, or advocates

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

To pound, crush, or grind to a powder or dust.

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


2. Impertinent

A picture or decorative design made by setting small colored pieces, as of stone or tile, into a surface.

In a deplorable state of distress or misfortune; miserable.

Exceeding the limits of propriety or good manners; improperly forward or bold

A disorderly commotion or disturbance.


3. Kilometer

The practice of professing beliefs, feelings, or virtues that one does not hold or possess; falseness.

A person with masterly skill or technique in the arts.

A grotesque ornamental figure or projection.

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


4. Boisterous

An unstable, poisonous allotrope of oxygen.

Having a buoyant or self-confident air; brisk.

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

Loud, noisy, and lacking in restraint or discipline


5. Salmonella

A schedule of prices or fees.

Any of several rod-shaped bacteria, of the genus Salmonella, that cause food poisoning and other diseases.

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

To take in by elaborate methods of deceit


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