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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 

ACCOST

DEFINITION:
To approach and speak to (someone) in an often challenging or aggressive way.

FOUND IN THE NEWS:
As their identities became more public, the operators were even accosted in their off hours.
►The Anchorage Daily News, 09/21/2026

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. Lucid

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

► To endow with the rights of citizenship, especially the right to vote.

► Overbearing pride or presumption; arrogance.

► Clear to the understanding.


2. Totalitarian

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

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

► Eating and drinking in moderation.

► To modify, as by shortening or simplifying or by skewing the content in a certain manner.


3. Circumnavigate

► Something done or paid to compensate or make amends.

► To proceed completely around:

► To weaken or destroy the strength or vitality of.

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


4. Hegemony

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

► The iron-containing respiratory pigment in red blood cells of vertebrates.

► Impossible to dispute; unquestionable

► The predominant influence, as of a state, region, or group, over another or others.


5. Tectonic

► Architectural.

► A person unduly fearful or contemptuous of that which is foreign, especially of strangers or foreign peoples.

► The basic unit of currency among participating European Union countries.

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


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