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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 

DISABILITY

DEFINITION:
A physical, mental, cognitive, or developmental condition that makes it more difficult for a person to do certain tasks or participate in daily activities.

FOUND IN THE NEWS:
The agreement last week between Disability-rights groups and Secretary of State Shirley Weber follows an Oct. 2 ruling by U.S. Magistrate Judge Sallie Kim of San Francisco that the current system violates the Americans with Disabilities Act and other laws.
►San Francisco Chronicle, 11/02/2026

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. Tautology

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

► Needless repetition of the same sense in different words; redundancy.

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

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


2. Abjure

► Feeling or showing haughty disdain.

► Division into ordered groups or categories.

► To renounce under oath; forswear.

► An extremely distant, and thus old, celestial object whose power output is several thousand times that of our entire galaxy.


3. Lugubrious

► Having one’s true identity concealed.

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

► The lowest point

► Not limited to or associated with a particular religious denomination.


4. Notarize

► To bring under control; conquer.

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

► The side of a right triangle opposite the right angle.

► Of the same or similar nature or kind


5. Parabola

► Of the same or similar nature or kind

► A system of names used in an art or science:

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

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


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