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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 

RECOGNITION

DEFINITION:
Identifying someone or something previously encountered, or giving official approval, credit, or attention to an achievement.

FOUND IN THE NEWS:
“Mr. Simon, with the thanks of a grateful nation, community and state in recognition of your dedicated service and sacrifice and bravery to our country, it is an honor to award you your diploma. Congratulations,” Rasmusson said.
►The Forum, 11/16/2026

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. Quotidian

► An extremely distant, and thus old, celestial object whose power output is several thousand times that of our entire galaxy.

► Everyday; commonplace.

► The basic unit of currency among participating European Union countries.

► Playfully jocular; humorous


2. Loquacious

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

► Very talkative; garrulous.

► To seize another’s place, authority, or possession wrongfully.

► A form of government in which the political authority exercises absolute and centralized control over all aspects of life,


3. Gamete

► A diligent, dependable worker.

► Deception by trickery or sophistry.

► 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.

► Lacking serious purpose or occupation; idle.


4. Feckless

► Feeling or showing haughty disdain.

► 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.

► Lacking purpose or vitality; feeble or ineffective.


5. Fiduciary

► Full of or exhibiting servile compliance; fawning.

► Attended by favorable circumstances; propitious.

► Tumultuous; stormy.

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


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