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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. Formidable

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

One that takes in everything available, as with the mind.

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

Inspiring awe, admiration, or wonder


2. Commemorate

To honor the memory of with a ceremony

The drawing of a conclusion by reasoning; the act of deducing.

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

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


3. Outrageous

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

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

The distribution of energy emitted by a radiant source, arranged in order of wavelengths.

Grossly offensive to decency or morality.


4. Mosaic

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

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

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

In a deplorable state of distress or misfortune; miserable.


5. Plateau

In a deplorable state of distress or misfortune; miserable.

Having a backbone or spinal column.

An elevated, comparatively level expanse of land; a tableland.

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


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