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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. Outrageous

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

To have a great ambition or ultimate goal

A conventional, formulaic, and oversimplified conception, opinion, or image.

Grossly offensive to decency or morality.


2. Phloem

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

The right or privilege of voting; franchise.

One that speaks for, represents, or advocates

A grotesque ornamental figure or projection.


3. Omnivore

Consuming or eager to consume great amounts of food; ravenous.

One that takes in everything available, as with the mind.

A preparation of a weakened or killed pathogen.

A rebirth or revival.


4. Boisterous

Loud, noisy, and lacking in restraint or discipline

A characteristic rate or rhythm of activity; a pace

The distribution of energy emitted by a radiant source, arranged in order of wavelengths.

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


5. Laconic

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

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

The practice of professing beliefs, feelings, or virtues that one does not hold or possess; falseness.

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


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