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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 

BREACH

DEFINITION:
An act of breaking or failing to observe a law, agreement, or code of conduct.

FOUND IN THE NEWS:
The Cockroach Janata Party’s three leaders — Abhijeet Dipke, Saurav Das and Ashutosh Ranka — were freed on condition that they commit “no breach of peace for one year,” Ratna Singh, the movement’s legal director, said in a social media post.
►Associated Press, 10/12/2026

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. Quasar

► Warlike in manner or temperament; pugnacious.

► Of the same or similar nature or kind

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

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


2. Temblor

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

► Shaking and vibration at the surface of the earth resulting from underground movement along a fault plane.

► The science and technology of building electronic circuits and devices from single atoms and molecules.

► Put together; created.


3. Nadir

► Put together; created.

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

► The lowest point


4. Reparation

► Something done or paid to compensate or make amends.

► Eating and drinking in moderation.

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

► Cheerfully confident; optimistic.


5. Kowtow

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

► To show servile deference.

► Of, relating to, or produced by motion.

► To bring under control; conquer.


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