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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 

ACQUAINTANCE

DEFINITION:
A person one knows slightly, but who is not a close friend.

FOUND IN THE NEWS:
When photographer Peter Turnley was just 20 years old, an acquaintance from the California Office of Economic Opportunity reached out to him with a question.
The Los Angeles Times, 12/01/2025

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. Contradiction

Logical incongruity

To bring under control; conquer.

A diligent, dependable worker.

To impress (something) upon the mind of another by frequent instruction or repetition; instill.


2. Impeach

A diligent, dependable worker.

To impress (something) upon the mind of another by frequent instruction or repetition; instill.

Vacuously, smugly, and unconsciously foolish.

To make an accusation against.


3. Antebellum

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

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

Belonging to the period before a war, especially the American Civil War.

Quickness, accuracy, and keenness of judgment or insight.


4. Totalitarian

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

Eating and drinking in moderation.

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

Government by a few, especially by a small faction of persons or families.


5. Lucid

Government by a few, especially by a small faction of persons or families.

A system of names used in an art or science:

Clear to the understanding.

To picture falsely; misrepresent.


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