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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 

INFLUENCER

DEFINITION:
Someone who uses their online reputation to prompt people to buy things.

FOUND IN THE NEWS:
“We have a lot of influencers who’ve come in and a lot of community members who have seen us through social media and come in and sell,” said Jessica Lucero, owner of In The Middle.
The Albuquerque Journal, 08/17/2026

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. Incontrovertible

Impossible to dispute; unquestionable

To impress (something) upon the mind of another by frequent instruction or repetition; instill.

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

A sudden manifestation of the essence or meaning of something.


2. Fiduciary

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

A sudden manifestation of the essence or meaning of something.

Of, relating to, or produced by motion.

Of or relating to a holding of something in trust for another.


3. Deleterious

Having a harmful effect; injurious.

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

The use of words to express something different from and often opposite to their literal meaning.

Of the same or similar nature or kind


4. Lugubrious

The use of words to express something different from and often opposite to their literal meaning.

Of the same or similar nature or kind

Quickness, accuracy, and keenness of judgment or insight.

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


5. Vortex

Attended by favorable circumstances; propitious.

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

A place or situation regarded as drawing into its center all that surrounds it.

Something done or paid to compensate or make amends.


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