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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 

ACQUAINTANCE

DEFINITION:
A person one knows slightly, but who is not a close friend.

FOUND IN THE NEWS:
When photographer Peter Turnley was just 20 years old, an acquaintance from the California Office of Economic Opportunity reached out to him with a question.
The Los Angeles Times, 12/01/2025

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. Renegade

Relating to a system of writing, such as that of ancient Egypt, in which pictorial symbols are used to represent meaning or sounds or a combination of meaning and sound.

To grow well or luxuriantly; thrive

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

The quality or state of being tranquil; serenity.


2. Sect

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

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

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


3. Fallacy

Incorrectness of reasoning or belief

Having no specific pattern, purpose, or objective.

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

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


4. Jaunty

Having a buoyant or self-confident air; brisk.

Of or relating to the range of invisible radiation wavelengths from about 4 nanometers, on the border of the x-ray region, to about 380 nanometers, just beyond the violet in the visible spectrum.

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

An embankment built to prevent flooding


5. Quota

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

An embankment built to prevent flooding

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

A proportional part or share.


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