Words in the News

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

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5 Middle School Words

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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. Stereotype

A person authorized to act as representative for another; a deputy.

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

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

Consuming or eager to consume great amounts of food; ravenous.


2. Participle

One thing conceived as representing another; a symbol.

Exceeding the limits of propriety or good manners; improperly forward or bold

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

In a deplorable state of distress or misfortune; miserable.


3. Eclectic

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

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

Selecting or employing individual elements from a variety of sources, systems, or styles

Harmful, malevolent, injurious. Harmfully cancerous.


4. Immune

Not subject to an obligation imposed on others; exempt.

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

Marked by hearty conviviality and good cheer.

A movement or procedure involving skill and dexterity.


5. Cower

To cringe in fear

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

To proclaim publicly

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


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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.