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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. Renegade

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

To stress or emphasize; intensify

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

One who rejects a religion, cause, allegiance, or group for another; a deserter.


2. Salmonella

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

To cringe in fear

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

Any of several rod-shaped bacteria, of the genus Salmonella, that cause food poisoning and other diseases.


3. Nuisance

Using or marked by the use of few words; terse or concise.

To take in by elaborate methods of deceit

Inspiring awe, admiration, or wonder

One that is inconvenient, annoying, or vexatious; a bother.


4. Typhoon

To move back or away from a limit, point, or mark

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

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

Forfeiture of something highly valued for the sake of one considered to have a greater value or claim.


5. Boycott

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

Strikingly unconventional and far-fetched in style or appearance; odd

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

Being without or almost without hope


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