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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 

PROACTIVE

DEFINITION:
Taking action to control a situation rather than responding to it after it has happened.

FOUND IN THE NEWS:
LoPilato said the policy aims to be proactive, rather than allowing more violence to take place before regulating the problem.
The Los Angeles Times, 07/20/2026

Words in the News Quiz
5 High School Words

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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. Oxidize

A system of names used in an art or science:

Not limited to or associated with a particular religious denomination.

Mournful, dismal, or gloomy, especially to an exaggerated or ludicrous degree.

To increase the positive charge or valence of (an element) by removing electrons.


2. Auspicious

Put together; created.

Attended by favorable circumstances; propitious.

Of or relating to a holding of something in trust for another.

The predominant influence, as of a state, region, or group, over another or others.


3. Suffragist

To bring under control; conquer.

An advocate of the extension of political voting rights, especially to women.

A plane curve formed by the intersection of a right circular cone and a plane parallel to an element of the cone.

A dramatic or literary form of discourse in which a character talks to himself or herself or reveals his or her thoughts without addressing a listener.


4. Lexicon

A dramatic or literary form of discourse in which a character talks to himself or herself or reveals his or her thoughts without addressing a listener.

The iron-containing respiratory pigment in red blood cells of vertebrates.

A part, portion, or share.

A stock of terms used in a particular profession, subject, or style; a vocabulary:


5. Winnow

To weaken or destroy the strength or vitality of.

Feeling or showing haughty disdain.

Quickness, accuracy, and keenness of judgment or insight.

To separate or get rid of (an undesirable part); eliminate.


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