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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

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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. Bowdlerize

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

The act or process of inhaling and exhaling; breathing.

To modify, as by shortening or simplifying or by skewing the content in a certain manner.

To weaken or destroy the strength or vitality of.


2. Circumlocution

Characterized by affected, exaggerated, or insincere earnestness.

Something done or paid to compensate or make amends.

The use of unnecessarily wordy and indirect language.

The basic unit of currency among participating European Union countries.


3. Acumen

Quickness, accuracy, and keenness of judgment or insight.

Of or relating to a holding of something in trust for another.

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

Not limited to or associated with a particular religious denomination.


4. Mitosis

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

Not limited to or associated with a particular religious denomination.

Interchanged, given, or owed to each other.

The process in cell division by which the nucleus divides.


5. Jejune

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.

Extremely rapid, hasty, or abrupt; precipitate.

Division into ordered groups or categories.

Not interesting; dull:


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