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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 

PARLIAMENTARIAN

DEFINITION:
A consultant who advises the presiding officer and other officers, committees, and members on matters of parliamentary procedure.

FOUND IN THE NEWS:
Mia Cooper, a parliamentarian for the district, brought her daughter to district meetings and state-level education forums as the girl grew up.
The Los Angeles Times, 03/09/2026

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. Epiphany

A circular strand of DNA in bacteria that contains the hereditary information necessary for cell life.

To remove erroneous, vulgar, obscene, or otherwise objectionable material from (a book, for example) before publication.

A sudden manifestation of the essence or meaning of something.

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


2. Loquacious

Put together; created.

An underlying base or foundation especially for an organization or system.

Very talkative; garrulous.

Feeling or showing haughty disdain.


3. Ziggurat

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

Logical incongruity

The process in green plants and certain other organisms by which carbohydrates are synthesized from carbon dioxide and water using light as an energy source.

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


4. Thermodynamics

Division into ordered groups or categories.

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

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

Not limited to or associated with a particular religious denomination.


5. Hypotenuse

A system of names used in an art or science:

An advocate of the extension of political voting rights, especially to women.

To repeat in concise form. To make a summary.

The side of a right triangle opposite the right angle.


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