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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. Jaunty

To honor the memory of with a ceremony

To pound, crush, or grind to a powder or dust.

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

Having a buoyant or self-confident air; brisk.


2. Analogy

Grossly offensive to decency or morality.

To move back or away from a limit, point, or mark

Similarity in some respects between things that are otherwise dissimilar.

Appropriateness of behavior or conduct


3. Inference

The act of reasoning from factual knowledge or evidence.

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

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.

A dense evergreen forest occupying a tropical region with an annual rainfall of at least 100 inches.


4. Bandolier

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

The main character in a drama or other literary work.

Not subject to an obligation imposed on others; exempt.

A characteristic rate or rhythm of activity; a pace


5. Alliteration

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

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

To take in by elaborate methods of deceit

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


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