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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 

EXTINGUISH

DEFINITION:
To stop a fire or a light from burning. To bring to an end.

FOUND IN THE NEWS:
Fargo police responded and attempted to put the fire out before the Fargo Fire Department extinguished the fire.
The Forum of Fargo-Moorhead, 08/31/2026

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. Equinox

Having unlimited or universal power, authority, or force; all-powerful.

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

Physics that deals with the relationships and conversions between heat and other forms of energy.

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


2. Expurgate

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

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

Attended by favorable circumstances; propitious.

Tumultuous; stormy.


3. Hubris

Overbearing pride or presumption; arrogance.

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

The use of obstructionist tactics, especially prolonged speechmaking, for the purpose of delaying legislative action.

Architectural.


4. Recapitulate

The use of obstructionist tactics, especially prolonged speechmaking, for the purpose of delaying legislative action.

Architectural.

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

To repeat in concise form. To make a summary.


5. Kinetic

Of, relating to, or produced by motion.

Warlike in manner or temperament; pugnacious.

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.

To show servile deference.


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