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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.
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

Words in the News Quiz
5 Elementary 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. analogy

The dividing line or location between two areas.

One of the simplest or essential parts or principles of which anything consists, or upon which the constitution or fundamental powers of anything are based.

A relationship of resemblance or equivalence between two situations, people, or objects,

Doubt, apprehension, a feeling of dread


2. interdependence

Dependent on each other

Important with regards to (a subject or matter); relevant

A thing that is granted, esp. in response to demands.

Sly; crafty; clever in surreptitious behaviour.


3. impending

Speech or language that is incomprehensible or unintelligible; gibberish.

Approaching; drawing near; about to happen

Exhibiting guilty or evasive secrecy.

A long flat-topped fixture in a store or bank across which business is conducted with customers.


4. specimen

Existing or occurring at the moment.

An individual instance that represents a class; an example.

The place set for the end of a journey, or to which something is sent; place or point aimed at.

To overpower; to subdue; to put down.


5. materialize

To cause to take physical form, or to cause an object to appear.

More than half (50%) of some group

Representation of a concept through symbols or underlying meanings of objects or qualities.

The act of inhabiting; state of inhabiting or dwelling, or of being inhabited; occupancy.


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