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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 

WRANGLING

DEFINITION:
Moving a person or thing somewhere, usually with difficulty or using force.

FOUND IN THE NEWS:
The location in Alexandria, Louisiana, would remove logistical headaches caused by wrangling children from foster homes and shelters across the country and not having anywhere to put them during final preparations for flight.
The Boston Herald, 07/13/2026

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. Lugubrious

Not interesting; dull:

To abolish, do away with, or annul, especially by authority.

Mournful, dismal, or gloomy, especially to an exaggerated or ludicrous degree.

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


2. Abjure

Vanishing or likely to vanish like vapor.

The act or process of inhaling and exhaling; breathing.

To renounce under oath; forswear.

Deception by trickery or sophistry.


3. Filibuster

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

The lowest point

Having a harmful effect; injurious.

The use of obstructionist tactics, especially prolonged speechmaking, for the purpose of delaying legislative action.


4. Nanotechnology

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

To bring under control; conquer.

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

A plane curve formed by the intersection of a right circular cone and a plane parallel to an element of the cone.


5. Circumlocution

The use of unnecessarily wordy and indirect language.

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

Characterized by affected, exaggerated, or insincere earnestness.

A system of names used in an art or science:


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