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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 

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DEFINITION:
An answer to a question or a reaction to something.

FOUND IN THE NEWS:
“And the response right away was ‘Sure!’”
The Reading Eagle, 09/07/2026

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. Polymer

Having a bad disposition; surly.

Any of numerous natural and synthetic compounds consisting of up to millions of repeated linked units,

Vanishing or likely to vanish like vapor.

A dramatic or literary form of discourse in which a character talks to himself or herself or reveals his or her thoughts without addressing a listener.


2. Plasma

Interchanged, given, or owed to each other.

Clear to the understanding.

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

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


3. Totalitarian

Tumultuous; stormy.

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

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

To abolish, do away with, or annul, especially by authority.


4. Vacuous

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

Lacking serious purpose or occupation; idle.

Eating and drinking in moderation.

Everyday; commonplace.


5. Filibuster

The act or process of inhaling and exhaling; breathing.

The use of obstructionist tactics, especially prolonged speechmaking, for the purpose of delaying legislative action.

To divide (a geographic area) into voting districts so as to give unfair advantage to one party in elections.

Shaking and vibration at the surface of the earth resulting from underground movement along a fault plane.


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