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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 

BILLIONAIRE

DEFINITION:
One whose wealth is estimated at a billion or more dollars, pounds, or other monetary units.

FOUND IN THE NEWS:
About a dozen people took part in the “March for billionaires” on Saturday morning in San Francisco to raise awareness about the plight of the ultrarich.
The Los Angeles Times, 02/09/2026

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. Salmonella

Enforced isolation or restriction of free movement imposed to prevent the spread of contagious disease.

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

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

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


2. Camouflage

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

The science and art of using all the forces of a nation to execute approved plans as effectively as possible during peace or war.

To take in by elaborate methods of deceit

The method or result of concealing personnel or equipment from an enemy by making them appear to be part of the natural surroundings


3. Analogy

A preparation of a weakened or killed pathogen.

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

Similarity in some respects between things that are otherwise dissimilar.

To pound, crush, or grind to a powder or dust.


4. Aspire

To have a great ambition or ultimate goal

To honor the memory of with a ceremony

Any of various relatively small sailing or motor-driven vessels used for pleasure cruises or racing.

Grossly offensive to decency or morality.


5. Repose

Any of various relatively small sailing or motor-driven vessels used for pleasure cruises or racing.

Grossly offensive to decency or morality.

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

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


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