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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 

ACCOST

DEFINITION:
To approach and speak to (someone) in an often challenging or aggressive way.

FOUND IN THE NEWS:
As their identities became more public, the operators were even accosted in their off hours.
►The Anchorage Daily News, 09/21/2026

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. Circumnavigate

► Interchanged, given, or owed to each other.

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

► To proceed completely around:

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


2. Photosynthesis

► Tumultuous; stormy.

► Clear to the understanding.

► To weaken or destroy the strength or vitality of.

► 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.


3. Expurgate

► Not limited to or associated with a particular religious denomination.

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

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

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


4. Nanotechnology

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

► Feeling or showing haughty disdain.

► Vacuously, smugly, and unconsciously foolish.

► The science and technology of building electronic circuits and devices from single atoms and molecules.


5. Detritus

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

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

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

► Having a bad disposition; surly.


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