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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 

ACQUAINTANCE

DEFINITION:
A person one knows slightly, but who is not a close friend.

FOUND IN THE NEWS:
When photographer Peter Turnley was just 20 years old, an acquaintance from the California Office of Economic Opportunity reached out to him with a question.
The Los Angeles Times, 12/01/2025

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. Tempo

The practice of professing beliefs, feelings, or virtues that one does not hold or possess; falseness.

A characteristic rate or rhythm of activity; a pace

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

To stress or emphasize; intensify


2. Tsunami

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

A teacher and guide in spiritual and philosophical matters.

The main character in a drama or other literary work.

Appropriateness of behavior or conduct


3. Dialogue

Appropriateness of behavior or conduct

The drawing of a conclusion by reasoning; the act of deducing.

Conversation between characters in a drama or narrative

A fungus, usually of the class Ascomycetes, that grows symbiotically with algae,


4. Alliteration

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

Being without or almost without hope

To honor the memory of with a ceremony

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


5. Levee

To honor the memory of with a ceremony

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

Something that is passed down from preceding generations; a tradition.

An embankment built to prevent flooding


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