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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

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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. Bellicose

Government by a few, especially by a small faction of persons or families.

To weaken or destroy the strength or vitality of.

Warlike in manner or temperament; pugnacious.

A product of disintegration, destruction, or wearing away; debris.


2. Paradigm

To show servile deference.

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

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

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.


3. Hegemony

Of the same or similar nature or kind

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

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

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


4. Enfranchise

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

Attended by favorable circumstances; propitious.

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

Having a bad disposition; surly.


5. Chromosome

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

A system of names used in an art or science:

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

Division into ordered groups or categories.


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