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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 

ENTICING

DEFINITION:
Arousing strong attraction or interest.

FOUND IN THE NEWS:
Meta makes enticing claims for Muse’s capabilities.
►The Los Angeles Times, 10/05/2026

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. Chicanery

► An underlying base or foundation especially for an organization or system.

► Deception by trickery or sophistry.

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

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


2. Equinox

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

► Of or relating to money

► To impress (something) upon the mind of another by frequent instruction or repetition; instill.

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


3. Wrought

► Put together; created.

► A stock of terms used in a particular profession, subject, or style; a vocabulary:

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

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


4. Gamete

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

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

► The process in cell division by which the nucleus divides.

► 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.


5. Kinetic

► Architectural.

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

► Of, relating to, or produced by motion.

► To bring under control; conquer.


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