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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 

COERCE

DEFINITION:
To persuade someone forcefully to do something that they are unwilling to do.

FOUND IN THE NEWS:
Lina Kahn, a former chair of the Federal Trade Commission, said that Google was using its “search monopoly to coerce schools” into adopting its AI.
►The Atlanta Journal-Constitution, 11/09/2026

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. Recapitulate

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

► Interchanged, given, or owed to each other.

► Impossible to dispute; unquestionable

► To repeat in concise form. To make a summary.


2. Hegemony

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

► The art or study of correct spelling according to established usage.

► Of, relating to, or produced by motion.

► To endow with the rights of citizenship, especially the right to vote.


3. Circumnavigate

► Of, relating to, or produced by motion.

► To endow with the rights of citizenship, especially the right to vote.

► A place or situation regarded as drawing into its center all that surrounds it.

► To proceed completely around:


4. Mitosis

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

► The iron-containing respiratory pigment in red blood cells of vertebrates.

► The process in cell division by which the nucleus divides.

► Overbearing pride or presumption; arrogance.


5. Nanotechnology

► Characterized by forcefulness of expression or intensity of emotion or conviction; fervid.

► Quickness, accuracy, and keenness of judgment or insight.

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

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


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