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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 

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DEFINITION:
An answer to a question or a reaction to something.

FOUND IN THE NEWS:
“And the response right away was ‘Sure!’”
The Reading Eagle, 09/07/2026

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. Kowtow

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

To show servile deference.

The act or process of inhaling and exhaling; breathing.

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


2. Reciprocal

A dramatic or literary form of discourse in which a character talks to himself or herself or reveals his or her thoughts without addressing a listener.

Shaking and vibration at the surface of the earth resulting from underground movement along a fault plane.

Interchanged, given, or owed to each other.

To weaken or destroy the strength or vitality of.


3. Parabola

Of, relating to, or produced by motion.

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

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

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


4. Jejune

Everyday; commonplace.

Not interesting; dull:

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

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


5. Quasar

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

The basic unit of currency among participating European Union countries.

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

Of or relating to money


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