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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 

ACCOST

DEFINITION:
To approach and speak to (someone) in an often challenging or aggressive way.

FOUND IN THE NEWS:
As their identities became more public, the operators were even accosted in their off hours.
The Anchorage Daily News, 09/21/2026

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. Winnow

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

The side of a right triangle opposite the right angle.

To separate or get rid of (an undesirable part); eliminate.

Either of two points on the celestial sphere at which the ecliptic intersects the celestial equator.


2. Tempestuous

To increase the positive charge or valence of (an element) by removing electrons.

Extremely rapid, hasty, or abrupt; precipitate.

Tumultuous; stormy.

Warlike in manner or temperament; pugnacious.


3. Tectonic

Architectural.

The use of unnecessarily wordy and indirect language.

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

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


4. Antebellum

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.

Belonging to the period before a war, especially the American Civil War.

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.

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


5. Taxonomy

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

A sudden manifestation of the essence or meaning of something.

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

Division into ordered groups or categories.


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