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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. Rainforest

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

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

To have a great ambition or ultimate goal


2. Maneuver

A movement or procedure involving skill and dexterity.

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

The systematic procedure by which a complex or scientific task is accomplished.

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


3. Voracious

Consuming or eager to consume great amounts of food; ravenous.

Having a backbone or spinal column.

Sharing the same opinions or views; being in complete harmony or accord.

In a deplorable state of distress or misfortune; miserable.


4. Gargoyle

A grotesque ornamental figure or projection.

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

A form of a verb that in some languages, such as English, can function independently as an adjective.

Having or demonstrating enthusiasm


5. Nocturnal

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

Of, relating to, or occurring in the night

One thing conceived as representing another; a symbol.

To proclaim publicly


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