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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 

BILLIONAIRE

DEFINITION:
One whose wealth is estimated at a billion or more dollars, pounds, or other monetary units.

FOUND IN THE NEWS:
About a dozen people took part in the “March for billionaires” on Saturday morning in San Francisco to raise awareness about the plight of the ultrarich.
The Los Angeles Times, 02/09/2026

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. Parasite

The right or privilege of voting; franchise.

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

Any of various relatively small sailing or motor-driven vessels used for pleasure cruises or racing.

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


2. Hieroglyphic

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.

To proclaim publicly

A Y-shaped protein on the surface of B cells that is secreted into the blood or lymph in response to an antigenic stimulus

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


3. Quota

A proportional part or share.

A relationship of mutual benefit or dependence.

Any of several rod-shaped bacteria, of the genus Salmonella, that cause food poisoning and other diseases.

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


4. Exponent

One that speaks for, represents, or advocates

The act of resting or the state of being at rest.

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

A treeless area between the icecap and the tree line of Arctic regions, having a permanently frozen subsoil and supporting low-growing vegetation


5. Nuisance

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

A treeless area between the icecap and the tree line of Arctic regions, having a permanently frozen subsoil and supporting low-growing vegetation

Exceeding the limits of propriety or good manners; improperly forward or bold

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


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