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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 

DISCERN

DEFINITION:
To see, recognize, or understand something that is not clear.

FOUND IN THE NEWS:
As you can discern, we have a rather complex group of vehicle violations that need to be cured.
►The Las Vegas Review-Journal, 10/26/2026

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. Oxidize

► Put together; created.

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

► Not interesting; dull:

► Clear to the understanding.


2. Gerrymander

► To divide (a geographic area) into voting districts so as to give unfair advantage to one party in elections.

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

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

► The clear, yellowish fluid portion of blood, lymph, or intramuscular fluid in which cells are suspended.


3. Vacuous

► Lacking serious purpose or occupation; idle.

► Playfully jocular; humorous

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

► To show servile deference.


4. Totalitarian

► To show servile deference.

► Vacuously, smugly, and unconsciously foolish.

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

► Impossible to dispute; unquestionable


5. Suffragist

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

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

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

► To weaken or destroy the strength or vitality of.


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