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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 

INFLUENCER

DEFINITION:
Someone who uses their online reputation to prompt people to buy things.

FOUND IN THE NEWS:
“We have a lot of influencers who’ve come in and a lot of community members who have seen us through social media and come in and sell,” said Jessica Lucero, owner of In The Middle.
The Albuquerque Journal, 08/17/2026

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. Tariff

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 schedule of prices or fees.

The pattern produced on a photosensitive medium that has been exposed by holography and then photographically developed.

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


2. Bamboozle

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

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

A picture or decorative design made by setting small colored pieces, as of stone or tile, into a surface.

To take in by elaborate methods of deceit


3. Analogy

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

Similarity in some respects between things that are otherwise dissimilar.

Of, relating to, or occurring in the night

Forfeiture of something highly valued for the sake of one considered to have a greater value or claim.


4. Deign

Forfeiture of something highly valued for the sake of one considered to have a greater value or claim.

Having a backbone or spinal column.

One that speaks for, represents, or advocates

To condescend to give or grant


5. Tsunami

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

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

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

To grow well or luxuriantly; thrive


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