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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 

INFLUENCER

DEFINITION:
Someone who uses their online reputation to prompt people to buy things.

FOUND IN THE NEWS:
“We have a lot of influencers who’ve come in and a lot of community members who have seen us through social media and come in and sell,” said Jessica Lucero, owner of In The Middle.
The Albuquerque Journal, 08/17/2026

Words in the News Quiz
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. Jovial

Conversation between characters in a drama or narrative

Marked by hearty conviviality and good cheer.

The quality or state of being tranquil; serenity.

The right or privilege of voting; franchise.


2. Impertinent

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

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

A person with masterly skill or technique in the arts.

A Y-shaped protein on the surface of B cells that is secreted into the blood or lymph in response to an antigenic stimulus


3. Despondent

Being without or almost without hope

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

Loud, noisy, and lacking in restraint or discipline

A weather phenomenon in the Eastern Pacific that is precisely equivalent to a hurricane.


4. Vacillate

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

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

A metric unit of length equal to 1,000 meters (0.62 mile).

A poisonous substance, especially a protein, that is produced by living cells or organisms.


5. Aspire

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

To have a great ambition or ultimate goal

To cringe in fear


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