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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 

COERCE

DEFINITION:
To persuade someone forcefully to do something that they are unwilling to do.

FOUND IN THE NEWS:
Lina Kahn, a former chair of the Federal Trade Commission, said that Google was using its “search monopoly to coerce schools” into adopting its AI.
►The Atlanta Journal-Constitution, 11/09/2026

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. Tautology

► To proceed completely around:

► Warlike in manner or temperament; pugnacious.

► To bring under control; conquer.

► Needless repetition of the same sense in different words; redundancy.


2. Enervate

► To seize another’s place, authority, or possession wrongfully.

► Lacking social polish; tactless.

► The use of obstructionist tactics, especially prolonged speechmaking, for the purpose of delaying legislative action.

► To weaken or destroy the strength or vitality of.


3. Vehement

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

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

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

► To endow with the rights of citizenship, especially the right to vote.


4. Suffragist

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

► Division into ordered groups or categories.

► Having a harmful effect; injurious.

► Vacuously, smugly, and unconsciously foolish.


5. Gamete

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

► 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.

► 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.

► Interchanged, given, or owed to each other.


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