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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. Jaunty

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

► Inspiring awe, admiration, or wonder

► Having a buoyant or self-confident air; brisk.

► 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.

2. Suffrage

► A conventional, formulaic, and oversimplified conception, opinion, or image.

► The right or privilege of voting; franchise.

► Incorrectness of reasoning or belief

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

3. Hologram

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

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

► To honor the memory of with a ceremony

► Marked by hearty conviviality and good cheer.

4. Undulate

► To move in waves or with a smooth, wavelike motion.

► One that speaks for, represents, or advocates

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

► A characteristic rate or rhythm of activity; a pace

5. Virtuoso

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

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

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

► To condescend to give or grant

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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.