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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. Inference

Having a buoyant or self-confident air; brisk.

A disorderly commotion or disturbance.

The drawing of a conclusion by reasoning; the act of deducing.

The act of reasoning from factual knowledge or evidence.


2. Symbiosis

One thing conceived as representing another; a symbol.

A cult or religious movement, a group sharing particular (often unorthodox) political and/or religious beliefs.

A relationship of mutual benefit or dependence.

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


3. Aspire

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

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

To have a great ambition or ultimate goal

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


4. Strategy

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

The act of resting or the state of being at rest.

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

The main character in a drama or other literary work.


5. Tundra

A treeless area between the icecap and the tree line of Arctic regions, having a permanently frozen subsoil and supporting low-growing vegetation

A dense evergreen forest occupying a tropical region with an annual rainfall of at least 100 inches.

A Y-shaped protein on the surface of B cells that is secreted into the blood or lymph in response to an antigenic stimulus

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


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