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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. Embargo

Having a buoyant or self-confident air; brisk.

The systematic procedure by which a complex or scientific task is accomplished.

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

The distance that light travels in a vacuum in one year.


2. Parasite

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

Of, relating to, or occurring in the night

One who habitually takes advantage of the generosity of others without making any useful return.

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


3. Hologram

An elevated, comparatively level expanse of land; a tableland.

Having or demonstrating enthusiasm

Being without or almost without hope

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


4. Flourish

To have a great ambition or ultimate goal

The right or privilege of voting; franchise.

To grow well or luxuriantly; thrive

Consuming or eager to consume great amounts of food; ravenous.


5. Xylem

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

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.

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


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