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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. Marsupial

► Grossly offensive to decency or morality.

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

► Incorrectness of reasoning or belief

► A characteristic rate or rhythm of activity; a pace

2. Accentuate

► To stress or emphasize; intensify

► Conversation between characters in a drama or narrative

► Having or demonstrating enthusiasm

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

3. Commemorate

► To swing indecisively from one course of action or opinion to another.

► To honor the memory of with a ceremony

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

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

4. Formidable

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

► Inspiring awe, admiration, or wonder

► In a deplorable state of distress or misfortune; miserable.

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

5. Hieroglyphic

► One thing conceived as representing another; a symbol.

► Self-examination.

► 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.

► A person with masterly skill or technique in the arts.

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