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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. Symbiosis

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

A relationship of mutual benefit or dependence.

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

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


2. Immune

A proportional part or share.

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

Not subject to an obligation imposed on others; exempt.

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


3. Labyrinth

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

To proclaim publicly

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

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


4. Quandary

Having a backbone or spinal column.

A state of uncertainty or perplexity.

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.


5. Parasite

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

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

The branch of biology that deals with animals and animal life, including the study of the structure, physiology, development, and classification of animals.

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


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