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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 

THRESHOLD

DEFINITION:
A level, point, or value at which something is true.

FOUND IN THE NEWS:
Child poverty — an assessment of whether pretax income for households with children falls below the latest poverty threshold — declined more significantly in New Mexico in the last three years, dropping from an estimated rate of 24.2% between 2022 and 2024 to 20.9% from 2023 to 2025.
►The Albuquerque Journal, 09/28/2026

Words in the News Quiz
5 High 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. Euro

► The basic unit of currency among participating European Union countries.

► Any of numerous natural and synthetic compounds consisting of up to millions of repeated linked units,

► To abolish, do away with, or annul, especially by authority.

► The process in green plants and certain other organisms by which carbohydrates are synthesized from carbon dioxide and water using light as an energy source.


2. Nonsectarian

► Feeling or showing haughty disdain.

► Not limited to or associated with a particular religious denomination.

► The act or process of inhaling and exhaling; breathing.

► Deception by trickery or sophistry.


3. Facetious

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

► Architectural.

► Playfully jocular; humorous

► Physics that deals with the relationships and conversions between heat and other forms of energy.


4. Deciduous

► Vacuously, smugly, and unconsciously foolish.

► Falling off or shed at a specific season or stage of growth:

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

► The use of words to express something different from and often opposite to their literal meaning.


5. Kinetic

► A marked change in appearance, character, condition, or function.

► Of, relating to, or produced by motion.

► Attended by favorable circumstances; propitious.

► Having a harmful effect; injurious.


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