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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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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. Analogy

► The distribution of energy emitted by a radiant source, arranged in order of wavelengths.

► The act of reasoning from factual knowledge or evidence.

► One that is inconvenient, annoying, or vexatious; a bother.

► Similarity in some respects between things that are otherwise dissimilar.

2. Omnivore

► A disorderly commotion or disturbance.

► A preparation of a weakened or killed pathogen.

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

► The quality or state of being tranquil; serenity.

3. Eclectic

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

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

► One that speaks for, represents, or advocates

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

4. Polygon

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

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

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

► A state of uncertainty or perplexity.

5. Deign

► Being without or almost without hope

► To condescend to give or grant

► Marked by hearty conviviality and good cheer.

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

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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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