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Words in the News

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

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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. Mutation

► The locus of points for which the sum of the distances from each point to two fixed points is equal

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

► An embankment built to prevent flooding

► An alteration or change, as in nature, form, or quality.

2. Vertebrate

► To rejoice greatly; be jubilant or triumphant

► Having a backbone or spinal column.

► A picture or decorative design made by setting small colored pieces, as of stone or tile, into a surface.

► The pattern produced on a photosensitive medium that has been exposed by holography and then photographically developed.

3. Plateau

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

► Loud, noisy, and lacking in restraint or discipline

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

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

4. Polygon

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

► To have a great ambition or ultimate goal

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

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

5. Kilometer

► A dense evergreen forest occupying a tropical region with an annual rainfall of at least 100 inches.

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

► A characteristic rate or rhythm of activity; a pace

► Grossly offensive to decency or morality.

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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.

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