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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 

WRANGLING

DEFINITION:
Moving a person or thing somewhere, usually with difficulty or using force.

FOUND IN THE NEWS:
The location in Alexandria, Louisiana, would remove logistical headaches caused by wrangling children from foster homes and shelters across the country and not having anywhere to put them during final preparations for flight.
The Boston Herald, 07/13/2026

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. Detritus

Put together; created.

Extremely rapid, hasty, or abrupt; precipitate.

To weaken or destroy the strength or vitality of.

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


2. Unctuous

Overbearing pride or presumption; arrogance.

A temple tower of the ancient Assyrians and Babylonians, having the form of a terraced pyramid of successively receding stories.

Characterized by affected, exaggerated, or insincere earnestness.

Vanishing or likely to vanish like vapor.


3. Parabola

A plane curve formed by the intersection of a right circular cone and a plane parallel to an element of the cone.

Quickness, accuracy, and keenness of judgment or insight.

Impossible to dispute; unquestionable

To repeat in concise form. To make a summary.


4. Incognito

Impossible to dispute; unquestionable

To repeat in concise form. To make a summary.

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

Having one’s true identity concealed.


5. Fiduciary

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

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

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

The basic unit of currency among participating European Union countries.


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