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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. Hemoglobin

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

► To insert or introduce between other elements or parts.

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

► Not limited to or associated with a particular religious denomination.


2. Hegemony

► Playfully jocular; humorous

► The predominant influence, as of a state, region, or group, over another or others.

► 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.

► A circular strand of DNA in bacteria that contains the hereditary information necessary for cell life.


3. Diffident

► Impossible to dispute; unquestionable

► A marked change in appearance, character, condition, or function.

► Lacking or marked by a lack of self-confidence; shy and timid.

► Mournful, dismal, or gloomy, especially to an exaggerated or ludicrous degree.


4. Tectonic

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

► A doctrine holding that all values are baseless and that nothing can be known or communicated.

► Architectural.

► A factor that determines a range of variations; a boundary


5. Suffragist

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

► Division into ordered groups or categories.

► To certify or attest to (the validity of a signature on a document, for example) as a notary public.

► The process in cell division by which the nucleus divides.


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