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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 

PARLIAMENTARIAN

DEFINITION:
A consultant who advises the presiding officer and other officers, committees, and members on matters of parliamentary procedure.

FOUND IN THE NEWS:
Mia Cooper, a parliamentarian for the district, brought her daughter to district meetings and state-level education forums as the girl grew up.
The Los Angeles Times, 03/09/2026

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. Levee

A proportional part or share.

Not subject to an obligation imposed on others; exempt.

Any of various nonplacental mammals, including kangaroos, opossums, bandicoots, and wombats, found principally in Australia and the Americas.

An embankment built to prevent flooding


2. Repose

A diffuse mass of interstellar dust or gas or both, visible as luminous patches or areas of darkness

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

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

The method or result of concealing personnel or equipment from an enemy by making them appear to be part of the natural surroundings


3. Alliteration

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

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

Incorrectness of reasoning or belief

An unstable, poisonous allotrope of oxygen.


4. Omnivore

Incorrectness of reasoning or belief

An unstable, poisonous allotrope of oxygen.

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

One that takes in everything available, as with the mind.


5. Exponent

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

To take in by elaborate methods of deceit

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.

One that speaks for, represents, or advocates


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