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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. Bamboozle

In a deplorable state of distress or misfortune; miserable.

A very large and destructive wave, generally caused by a tremendous disturbance in the ocean, such as an undersea earthquake or volcanic eruption.

To take in by elaborate methods of deceit

Self-examination.


2. Marsupial

Any of various nonplacental mammals, including kangaroos, opossums, bandicoots, and wombats, found principally in Australia and the Americas.

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

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

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


3. Embargo

A prohibition by a government on certain or all trade with a foreign nation

Loud, noisy, and lacking in restraint or discipline

A diffuse mass of interstellar dust or gas or both, visible as luminous patches or areas of darkness

The act of reasoning from factual knowledge or evidence.


4. Guerrilla

A member of an irregular, usually indigenous military or paramilitary unit operating in small bands in occupied territory to harass and undermine the enemy

To cringe in fear

The main character in a drama or other literary work.

To move in waves or with a smooth, wavelike motion.


5. Chronology

The main character in a drama or other literary work.

To move in waves or with a smooth, wavelike motion.

The distance that light travels in a vacuum in one year.

The arrangement of events in time


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