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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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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. Dialogue

► Conversation between characters in a drama or narrative

► The branch of biology that deals with animals and animal life, including the study of the structure, physiology, development, and classification of animals.

► To swing indecisively from one course of action or opinion to another.

► A grotesque ornamental figure or projection.

2. Virtuoso

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

► A person with masterly skill or technique in the arts.

► A prohibition by a government on certain or all trade with a foreign nation

► The practice of professing beliefs, feelings, or virtues that one does not hold or possess; falseness.

3. Outrageous

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

► Grossly offensive to decency or morality.

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

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

4. Omnivore

► Inspiring awe, admiration, or wonder

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

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

► The right or privilege of voting; franchise.

5. Chronology

► A relationship of mutual benefit or dependence.

► 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

► The arrangement of events in time

► A proportional part or share.

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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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