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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.

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. Suffragist

► Of, relating to, or produced by motion.

► An advocate of the extension of political voting rights, especially to women.

► A dramatic or literary form of discourse in which a character talks to himself or herself or reveals his or her thoughts without addressing a listener.

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

2. Incontrovertible

► Impossible to dispute; unquestionable

► 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.

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

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

3. Facetious

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

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

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

► Playfully jocular; humorous

4. Plasma

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

► To weaken or destroy the strength or vitality of.

► Having one’s true identity concealed.

► The clear, yellowish fluid portion of blood, lymph, or intramuscular fluid in which cells are suspended.

5. Notarize

► A reproductive cell having the haploid number of chromosomes, especially a mature sperm or egg capable of fusing with a gamete of the opposite sex to produce the fertilized egg.

► Having a harmful effect; injurious.

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

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

INSPECTOR
DEFINITION: An official employed to ensure that official regulations are obeyed, especially in public services.	FOUND IN THE NEWS: U.S. Customs and Border Protection agents are federal employees, and misconduct allegations are typically investigated by the agency’s Office of Professional Responsibility or by the Department of Homeland Security’s Office of inspector General. ►The Key West Citizen, 03/16/2026

INSPECTOR

Words in the News Quiz5 High School Words

Words in the News Quiz
5 High School Words