Words in the News

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

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5 Middle School Words

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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. Nebula

Inspiring awe, admiration, or wonder

Similarity in some respects between things that are otherwise dissimilar.

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

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


2. Omnivore

Conversation between characters in a drama or narrative

One thing conceived as representing another; a symbol.

The food-conducting tissue of vascular plants, consisting of sieve tubes, fibers, parenchyma, and sclereids.

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


3. Commemorate

An ammunition belt, worn over the shoulder, having loops or pockets for cartridges.

To grow well or luxuriantly; thrive

To honor the memory of with a ceremony

A fungus, usually of the class Ascomycetes, that grows symbiotically with algae,


4. Boycott

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

One who habitually takes advantage of the generosity of others without making any useful return.

The quality or state of being tranquil; serenity.

The arrangement of events in time


5. Suffrage

The right or privilege of voting; franchise.

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.

To have a great ambition or ultimate goal

Of, relating to, or occurring in the night


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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.