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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 

PROACTIVE

DEFINITION:
Taking action to control a situation rather than responding to it after it has happened.

FOUND IN THE NEWS:
LoPilato said the policy aims to be proactive, rather than allowing more violence to take place before regulating the problem.
The Los Angeles Times, 07/20/2026

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. Notarize

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

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

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

Impossible to dispute; unquestionable


2. Lexicon

Warlike in manner or temperament; pugnacious.

The basic unit of currency among participating European Union countries.

A stock of terms used in a particular profession, subject, or style; a vocabulary:

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


3. Deciduous

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

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

A sudden manifestation of the essence or meaning of something.

A system of names used in an art or science:


4. Hegemony

A system of names used in an art or science:

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

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

A diligent, dependable worker.


5. Polymer

Having one’s true identity concealed.

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

Very talkative; garrulous.

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


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