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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. Eclectic

Conversation between characters in a drama or narrative

A closed plane figure bounded by three or more line segments.

One thing conceived as representing another; a symbol.

Selecting or employing individual elements from a variety of sources, systems, or styles


2. Embargo

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

A form of a verb that in some languages, such as English, can function independently as an adjective.

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

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


3. Quota

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

Self-examination.

A proportional part or share.

The repetition of the same sounds or of the same kinds of sounds at the beginning of words or in stressed syllables


4. Guerrilla

A person authorized to act as representative for another; a deputy.

Harmful, malevolent, injurious. Harmfully cancerous.

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

To move in waves or with a smooth, wavelike motion.


5. Hieroglyphic

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

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 science and art of using all the forces of a nation to execute approved plans as effectively as possible during peace or war.

A preparation of a weakened or killed pathogen.


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