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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

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. Totalitarian

A form of government in which the political authority exercises absolute and centralized control over all aspects of life,

A product of disintegration, destruction, or wearing away; debris.

A part, portion, or share.

Division into ordered groups or categories.


2. Oxidize

A part, portion, or share.

Division into ordered groups or categories.

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.

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


3. Nadir

The lowest point

Not limited to or associated with a particular religious denomination.

Warlike in manner or temperament; pugnacious.

A system of names used in an art or science:


4. Nanotechnology

A system of names used in an art or science:

Architectural.

The science and technology of building electronic circuits and devices from single atoms and molecules.

To remove erroneous, vulgar, obscene, or otherwise objectionable material from (a book, for example) before publication.


5. Contradiction

Logical incongruity

To repeat in concise form. To make a summary.

Government by a few, especially by a small faction of persons or families.

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


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