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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. Fallacy

Incorrectness of reasoning or belief

A very large and destructive wave, generally caused by a tremendous disturbance in the ocean, such as an undersea earthquake or volcanic eruption.

A member of an irregular, usually indigenous military or paramilitary unit operating in small bands in occupied territory to harass and undermine the enemy

To take in by elaborate methods of deceit


2. Repose

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

Conversation between characters in a drama or narrative

The act of reasoning from factual knowledge or evidence.

An intricate structure of interconnecting passages through which it is difficult to find one’s way; a maze.


3. Flourish

A person with masterly skill or technique in the arts.

To grow well or luxuriantly; thrive

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

The quality or state of being tranquil; serenity.


4. Exponent

One that speaks for, represents, or advocates

Any of various nonplacental mammals, including kangaroos, opossums, bandicoots, and wombats, found principally in Australia and the Americas.

A diffuse mass of interstellar dust or gas or both, visible as luminous patches or areas of darkness

To proclaim publicly


5. Quandary

Self-examination.

A state of uncertainty or perplexity.

Either of two times of the year when the sun is at its greatest distance from the celestial equator.

The systematic procedure by which a complex or scientific task is accomplished.


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