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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. Tranquility

The quality or state of being tranquil; serenity.

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

Being without or almost without hope

Harmful, malevolent, injurious. Harmfully cancerous.


2. Renegade

Being without or almost without hope

Harmful, malevolent, injurious. Harmfully cancerous.

Strikingly unconventional and far-fetched in style or appearance; odd

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


3. Sacrifice

Having a buoyant or self-confident air; brisk.

The main character in a drama or other literary work.

Forfeiture of something highly valued for the sake of one considered to have a greater value or claim.

The act of reasoning from factual knowledge or evidence.


4. Alliteration

The locus of points for which the sum of the distances from each point to two fixed points is equal

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

A schedule of prices or fees.

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


5. Outrageous

A drawing consisting of the outline of something, especially a human profile, filled in with a solid color.

Grossly offensive to decency or morality.

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

Incorrectness of reasoning or belief


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