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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. Hegemony

The process in cell division by which the nucleus divides.

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

The use of unnecessarily wordy and indirect language.

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


2. Lucid

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

Clear to the understanding.

A factor that determines a range of variations; a boundary

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


3. Tautology

Vanishing or likely to vanish like vapor.

Playfully jocular; humorous

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

Either of two points on the celestial sphere at which the ecliptic intersects the celestial equator.


4. Recapitulate

To weaken or destroy the strength or vitality of.

Of or relating to a holding of something in trust for another.

To repeat in concise form. To make a summary.

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


5. Ziggurat

Noninterference in the affairs of others.

To bring under control; conquer.

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

To show servile deference.


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