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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. Sacrifice

One that speaks for, represents, or advocates

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

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

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


2. Mosaic

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

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

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

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


3. Guru

Enforced isolation or restriction of free movement imposed to prevent the spread of contagious disease.

Similarity in some respects between things that are otherwise dissimilar.

A teacher and guide in spiritual and philosophical matters.

A conventional, formulaic, and oversimplified conception, opinion, or image.


4. Laconic

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

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

Either of two times of the year when the sun is at its greatest distance from the celestial equator.

Using or marked by the use of few words; terse or concise.


5. Quota

A proportional part or share.

A cult or religious movement, a group sharing particular (often unorthodox) political and/or religious beliefs.

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

To proclaim publicly


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