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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 

HEIST

DEFINITION:
A robbery or burglary, especially from an institution such as a bank or museum.

FOUND IN THE NEWS:
Five suspects accused in connection with the heist were taken into custody late Wednesday, bringing the total arrest count to seven.
The Las Vegas Review-Journal, 11/03/2025

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. Incontrovertible

Impossible to dispute; unquestionable

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

The clear, yellowish fluid portion of blood, lymph, or intramuscular fluid in which cells are suspended.

Cheerfully confident; optimistic.


2. Winnow

Cheerfully confident; optimistic.

To picture falsely; misrepresent.

To separate or get rid of (an undesirable part); eliminate.

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


3. Epiphany

A diligent, dependable worker.

Not limited to or associated with a particular religious denomination.

The process in cell division by which the nucleus divides.

A sudden manifestation of the essence or meaning of something.


4. Paradigm

The lowest point

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

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

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


5. Gamete

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

To divide (a geographic area) into voting districts so as to give unfair advantage to one party in elections.

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

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.


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