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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. Inference

An unstable, poisonous allotrope of oxygen.

One that is inconvenient, annoying, or vexatious; a bother.

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 reasoning from factual knowledge or evidence.


2. Typhoon

A relationship of mutual benefit or dependence.

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

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

To condescend to give or grant


3. Labyrinth

A schedule of prices or fees.

An intricate structure of interconnecting passages through which it is difficult to find one’s way; a maze.

An alteration or change, as in nature, form, or quality.

To stress or emphasize; intensify


4. Xylem

The supporting and water-conducting tissue of vascular plants, consisting primarily of tracheids and vessels; woody tissue.

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

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

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


5. Mosaic

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

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

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

Having a backbone or spinal column.


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