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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 

THRESHOLD

DEFINITION:
A level, point, or value at which something is true.

FOUND IN THE NEWS:
Child poverty — an assessment of whether pretax income for households with children falls below the latest poverty threshold — declined more significantly in New Mexico in the last three years, dropping from an estimated rate of 24.2% between 2022 and 2024 to 20.9% from 2023 to 2025.
►The Albuquerque Journal, 09/28/2026

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. Hubris

► Overbearing pride or presumption; arrogance.

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

► Impossible to dispute; unquestionable

► Something done or paid to compensate or make amends.


2. Taxonomy

► Something done or paid to compensate or make amends.

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

► Division into ordered groups or categories.

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


3. Gamete

► Playfully jocular; humorous

► Lacking social polish; tactless.

► 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.

► Vacuously, smugly, and unconsciously foolish.


4. Expurgate

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

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

► A factor that determines a range of variations; a boundary

► To remove erroneous, vulgar, obscene, or otherwise objectionable material from (a book, for example) before publication.


5. Laissez faire

► Noninterference in the affairs of others.

► 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.

► Vanishing or likely to vanish like vapor.

► Logical incongruity


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