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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. Vertebrate

Having a backbone or spinal column.

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

The quality or state of being tranquil; serenity.

The arrangement of events in time


2. Tumult

The arrangement of events in time

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

A disorderly commotion or disturbance.

Something that is passed down from preceding generations; a tradition.


3. Laconic

A metric unit of length equal to 1,000 meters (0.62 mile).

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

The distance that light travels in a vacuum in one year.

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


4. Nocturnal

A prohibition by a government on certain or all trade with a foreign nation

Of, relating to, or occurring in the night

A conventional, formulaic, and oversimplified conception, opinion, or image.

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


5. Boycott

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

Incorrectness of reasoning or belief

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

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


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