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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 

BREACH

DEFINITION:
An act of breaking or failing to observe a law, agreement, or code of conduct.

FOUND IN THE NEWS:
The Cockroach Janata Party’s three leaders — Abhijeet Dipke, Saurav Das and Ashutosh Ranka — were freed on condition that they commit “no breach of peace for one year,” Ratna Singh, the movement’s legal director, said in a social media post.
►Associated Press, 10/12/2026

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. Polymer

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

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

► To picture falsely; misrepresent.

► Tumultuous; stormy.


2. Obsequious

► Tumultuous; stormy.

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

► Full of or exhibiting servile compliance; fawning.

► A factor that determines a range of variations; a boundary


3. Orthography

► Overbearing pride or presumption; arrogance.

► A place or situation regarded as drawing into its center all that surrounds it.

► The art or study of correct spelling according to established usage.

► An extremely distant, and thus old, celestial object whose power output is several thousand times that of our entire galaxy.


4. Expurgate

► Not interesting; dull:

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

► A doctrine holding that all values are baseless and that nothing can be known or communicated.

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


5. Xenophobe

► Lacking social polish; tactless.

► Architectural.

► A person unduly fearful or contemptuous of that which is foreign, especially of strangers or foreign peoples.

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


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