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. Exponent

The distance that light travels in a vacuum in one year.

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

To have a great ambition or ultimate goal

One that speaks for, represents, or advocates


2. Suffrage

Of, relating to, or occurring in the night

Enforced isolation or restriction of free movement imposed to prevent the spread of contagious disease.

The right or privilege of voting; franchise.

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


3. Deduction

To pound, crush, or grind to a powder or dust.

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

Not subject to an obligation imposed on others; exempt.

To stress or emphasize; intensify


4. Ultraviolet

Marked by hearty conviviality and good cheer.

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

Of or relating to the range of invisible radiation wavelengths from about 4 nanometers, on the border of the x-ray region, to about 380 nanometers, just beyond the violet in the visible spectrum.

Grossly offensive to decency or morality.


5. Boycott

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

The systematic procedure by which a complex or scientific task is accomplished.

To abstain from or act together in abstaining from using, buying, or dealing with as an expression of protest or disfavor or as a means of coercion

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


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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.