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

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. Silhouette

A drawing consisting of the outline of something, especially a human profile, filled in with a solid color.

To rejoice greatly; be jubilant or triumphant

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

To proclaim publicly


2. Mutation

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

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

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

Harmful, malevolent, injurious. Harmfully cancerous.


3. Repose

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

Inspiring awe, admiration, or wonder

To honor the memory of with a ceremony

A preparation of a weakened or killed pathogen.


4. Participle

A preparation of a weakened or killed pathogen.

Strikingly unconventional and far-fetched in style or appearance; odd

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

Incorrectness of reasoning or belief


5. Quota

A proportional part or share.

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

To cringe in fear

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


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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.