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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. Strategy

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

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

An unstable, poisonous allotrope of oxygen.

Harmful, malevolent, injurious. Harmfully cancerous.


2. Plateau

Harmful, malevolent, injurious. Harmfully cancerous.

Sharing the same opinions or views; being in complete harmony or accord.

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

Incorrectness of reasoning or belief


3. Repose

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

Appropriateness of behavior or conduct

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

To grow well or luxuriantly; thrive


4. Sect

To grow well or luxuriantly; thrive

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

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

A proportional part or share.


5. Labyrinth

A metric unit of length equal to 1,000 meters (0.62 mile).

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

Having or demonstrating enthusiasm

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


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