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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. Mutation

To take in by elaborate methods of deceit

Appropriateness of behavior or conduct

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

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


2. Guerrilla

Similarity in some respects between things that are otherwise dissimilar.

A state of uncertainty or perplexity.

A member of an irregular, usually indigenous military or paramilitary unit operating in small bands in occupied territory to harass and undermine the enemy

The right or privilege of voting; franchise.


3. Hologram

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

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.

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

An embankment built to prevent flooding


4. Formidable

Inspiring awe, admiration, or wonder

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

One thing conceived as representing another; a symbol.

To honor the memory of with a ceremony


5. Vaccine

The practice of professing beliefs, feelings, or virtues that one does not hold or possess; falseness.

A preparation of a weakened or killed pathogen.

A disorderly commotion or disturbance.

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


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