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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. Cower

► To cringe in fear

► To honor the memory of with a ceremony

► One that speaks for, represents, or advocates

► 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

2. Solstice

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

► Either of two times of the year when the sun is at its greatest distance from the celestial equator.

► Any of various relatively small sailing or motor-driven vessels used for pleasure cruises or racing.

► Having a backbone or spinal column.

3. Tundra

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

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

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

4. Guru

► A teacher and guide in spiritual and philosophical matters.

► Grossly offensive to decency or morality.

► A relationship of mutual benefit or dependence.

► A weather phenomenon in the Eastern Pacific that is precisely equivalent to a hurricane.

5. Toxin

► A poisonous substance, especially a protein, that is produced by living cells or organisms.

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

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

► A state of uncertainty or perplexity.

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