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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 

WRANGLING

DEFINITION:
Moving a person or thing somewhere, usually with difficulty or using force.

FOUND IN THE NEWS:
The location in Alexandria, Louisiana, would remove logistical headaches caused by wrangling children from foster homes and shelters across the country and not having anywhere to put them during final preparations for flight.
The Boston Herald, 07/13/2026

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. Reciprocal

A place or situation regarded as drawing into its center all that surrounds it.

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.

Architectural.

Interchanged, given, or owed to each other.


2. Vehement

Deception by trickery or sophistry.

Characterized by forcefulness of expression or intensity of emotion or conviction; fervid.

To renounce under oath; forswear.

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


3. Precipitous

Extremely rapid, hasty, or abrupt; precipitate.

Something done or paid to compensate or make amends.

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

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


4. Paradigm

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

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

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

A set of assumptions, concepts, values, and practices that constitutes a way of viewing reality


5. Lucid

Of, relating to, or produced by motion.

Falling off or shed at a specific season or stage of growth:

Having one’s true identity concealed.

Clear to the understanding.


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