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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 

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DEFINITION:
An answer to a question or a reaction to something.

FOUND IN THE NEWS:
“And the response right away was ‘Sure!’”
The Reading Eagle, 09/07/2026

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. Moiety

A circular strand of DNA in bacteria that contains the hereditary information necessary for cell life.

Lacking purpose or vitality; feeble or ineffective.

A part, portion, or share.

To show servile deference.


2. Jejune

Division into ordered groups or categories.

Not interesting; dull:

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

Logical incongruity


3. Hypotenuse

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

Characterized by forcefulness of expression or intensity of emotion or conviction; fervid.

The side of a right triangle opposite the right angle.

A diligent, dependable worker.


4. Abrogate

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

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

Having a harmful effect; injurious.

Either of two points on the celestial sphere at which the ecliptic intersects the celestial equator.


5. Gamete

Either of two points on the celestial sphere at which the ecliptic intersects the celestial equator.

Having a bad disposition; surly.

Having unlimited or universal power, authority, or force; all-powerful.

A reproductive cell having the haploid number of chromosomes, especially a mature sperm or egg capable of fusing with a gamete of the opposite sex to produce the fertilized egg.


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