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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 

PARLIAMENTARIAN

DEFINITION:
A consultant who advises the presiding officer and other officers, committees, and members on matters of parliamentary procedure.

FOUND IN THE NEWS:
Mia Cooper, a parliamentarian for the district, brought her daughter to district meetings and state-level education forums as the girl grew up.
The Los Angeles Times, 03/09/2026

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. Lichen

A fungus, usually of the class Ascomycetes, that grows symbiotically with algae,

To honor the memory of with a ceremony

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

A diffuse mass of interstellar dust or gas or both, visible as luminous patches or areas of darkness


2. Deign

A diffuse mass of interstellar dust or gas or both, visible as luminous patches or areas of darkness

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

To condescend to give or grant

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


3. Yacht

A grotesque ornamental figure or projection.

Incorrectness of reasoning or belief

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

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


4. Enthusiastic

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

Having or demonstrating enthusiasm

A drawing consisting of the outline of something, especially a human profile, filled in with a solid color.

An embankment built to prevent flooding


5. Despondent

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

Being without or almost without hope

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

To rejoice greatly; be jubilant or triumphant


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