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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 

ACQUAINTANCE

DEFINITION:
A person one knows slightly, but who is not a close friend.

FOUND IN THE NEWS:
When photographer Peter Turnley was just 20 years old, an acquaintance from the California Office of Economic Opportunity reached out to him with a question.
The Los Angeles Times, 12/01/2025

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. Quarantine

Being without or almost without hope

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

The supporting and water-conducting tissue of vascular plants, consisting primarily of tracheids and vessels; woody tissue.

A preparation of a weakened or killed pathogen.


2. Exult

A preparation of a weakened or killed pathogen.

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

The systematic procedure by which a complex or scientific task is accomplished.

To rejoice greatly; be jubilant or triumphant


3. Heritage

A disorderly commotion or disturbance.

The quality or state of being tranquil; serenity.

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

Incorrectness of reasoning or belief


4. Hologram

The arrangement of events in time

An ammunition belt, worn over the shoulder, having loops or pockets for cartridges.

The pattern produced on a photosensitive medium that has been exposed by holography and then photographically developed.

A treeless area between the icecap and the tree line of Arctic regions, having a permanently frozen subsoil and supporting low-growing vegetation


5. Solstice

A state of uncertainty or perplexity.

Either of two times of the year when the sun is at its greatest distance from the celestial equator.

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

Not subject to an obligation imposed on others; exempt.


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