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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. Participle

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

One thing conceived as representing another; a symbol.

One that speaks for, represents, or advocates

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


2. Symbiosis

A relationship of mutual benefit or dependence.

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

Self-examination.

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


3. Tumult

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

An unstable, poisonous allotrope of oxygen.

A disorderly commotion or disturbance.

The branch of biology that deals with animals and animal life, including the study of the structure, physiology, development, and classification of animals.


4. Typhoon

Having a buoyant or self-confident air; brisk.

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

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

A closed plane figure bounded by three or more line segments.


5. Salmonella

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

To grow well or luxuriantly; thrive

Something that is passed down from preceding generations; a tradition.

Grossly offensive to decency or morality.


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