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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. Deduction

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

In a deplorable state of distress or misfortune; miserable.

The food-conducting tissue of vascular plants, consisting of sieve tubes, fibers, parenchyma, and sclereids.

Loud, noisy, and lacking in restraint or discipline


2. Cower

To cringe in fear

A schedule of prices or fees.

To rejoice greatly; be jubilant or triumphant

The distance that light travels in a vacuum in one year.


3. Boycott

One who habitually takes advantage of the generosity of others without making any useful return.

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

A movement or procedure involving skill and dexterity.

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


4. Enthusiastic

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

Of or relating to the range of invisible radiation wavelengths from about 4 nanometers, on the border of the x-ray region, to about 380 nanometers, just beyond the violet in the visible spectrum.

A dense evergreen forest occupying a tropical region with an annual rainfall of at least 100 inches.

Having or demonstrating enthusiasm


5. Suffrage

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

The right or privilege of voting; franchise.

Grossly offensive to decency or morality.

Having a buoyant or self-confident air; brisk.


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