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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

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. Nanotechnology

The science and technology of building electronic circuits and devices from single atoms and molecules.

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

Full of or exhibiting servile compliance; fawning.

A set of assumptions, concepts, values, and practices that constitutes a way of viewing reality


2. Infrastructure

An underlying base or foundation especially for an organization or system.

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

A part, portion, or share.

Vacuously, smugly, and unconsciously foolish.


3. Belie

Vacuously, smugly, and unconsciously foolish.

Lacking purpose or vitality; feeble or ineffective.

To picture falsely; misrepresent.

To renounce under oath; forswear.


4. Unctuous

Characterized by affected, exaggerated, or insincere earnestness.

The process in cell division by which the nucleus divides.

Cheerfully confident; optimistic.

Having a bad disposition; surly.


5. Deciduous

Cheerfully confident; optimistic.

Having a bad disposition; surly.

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.

Falling off or shed at a specific season or stage of growth:


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