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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. Silhouette

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

A relationship of mutual benefit or dependence.

The arrangement of events in time

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


2. Labyrinth

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

A preparation of a weakened or killed pathogen.

Any of various relatively small sailing or motor-driven vessels used for pleasure cruises or racing.

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


3. Suffrage

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

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

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

The right or privilege of voting; franchise.


4. Cower

To cringe in fear

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

The food-conducting tissue of vascular plants, consisting of sieve tubes, fibers, parenchyma, and sclereids.

To rejoice greatly; be jubilant or triumphant


5. Camouflage

Forfeiture of something highly valued for the sake of one considered to have a greater value or claim.

The method or result of concealing personnel or equipment from an enemy by making them appear to be part of the natural surroundings

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

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


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