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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. Nihilism

Extremely rapid, hasty, or abrupt; precipitate.

A doctrine holding that all values are baseless and that nothing can be known or communicated.

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

A factor that determines a range of variations; a boundary


2. Evanescent

A factor that determines a range of variations; a boundary

Of the same or similar nature or kind

Cheerfully confident; optimistic.

Vanishing or likely to vanish like vapor.


3. Usurp

Lacking or marked by a lack of self-confidence; shy and timid.

Deception by trickery or sophistry.

To seize another’s place, authority, or possession wrongfully.

To modify, as by shortening or simplifying or by skewing the content in a certain manner.


4. Hemoglobin

A person unduly fearful or contemptuous of that which is foreign, especially of strangers or foreign peoples.

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

Not limited to or associated with a particular religious denomination.

The side of a right triangle opposite the right angle.


5. Ziggurat

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

Shaking and vibration at the surface of the earth resulting from underground movement along a fault plane.

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

To bring under control; conquer.


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