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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 

RECOGNITION

DEFINITION:
Identifying someone or something previously encountered, or giving official approval, credit, or attention to an achievement.

FOUND IN THE NEWS:
“Mr. Simon, with the thanks of a grateful nation, community and state in recognition of your dedicated service and sacrifice and bravery to our country, it is an honor to award you your diploma. Congratulations,” Rasmusson said.
►The Forum, 11/16/2026

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. Plasma

► A doctrine holding that all values are baseless and that nothing can be known or communicated.

► Lacking serious purpose or occupation; idle.

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

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


2. Omnipotent

► Having unlimited or universal power, authority, or force; all-powerful.

► A product of disintegration, destruction, or wearing away; debris.

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

► To weaken or destroy the strength or vitality of.


3. Xenophobe

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

► To weaken or destroy the strength or vitality of.

► Extremely rapid, hasty, or abrupt; precipitate.

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


4. Tautology

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

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

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

► Quickness, accuracy, and keenness of judgment or insight.


5. Reparation

► Quickness, accuracy, and keenness of judgment or insight.

► The art or study of correct spelling according to established usage.

► A temple tower of the ancient Assyrians and Babylonians, having the form of a terraced pyramid of successively receding stories.

► Something done or paid to compensate or make amends.


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