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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 

ACCESS

DEFINITION:
The freedom or ability to obtain or make use of something.

FOUND IN THE NEWS:
Restrict access to out-of-state entities, like federal agencies, private entities, or other states, unless required by a court order or judicial warrant.
The Duluth News Tribune, 08/24/2026

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. Contradiction

Logical incongruity

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

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

Of or relating to money


2. Interpolate

Of or relating to money

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

To insert or introduce between other elements or parts.

A factor that determines a range of variations; a boundary


3. Hemoglobin

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

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

To abolish, do away with, or annul, especially by authority.

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


4. Gamete

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.

Of the same or similar nature or kind

Something done or paid to compensate or make amends.

A sudden manifestation of the essence or meaning of something.


5. Bellicose

Something done or paid to compensate or make amends.

A sudden manifestation of the essence or meaning of something.

To weaken or destroy the strength or vitality of.

Warlike in manner or temperament; pugnacious.


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