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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. Jejune

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

► Not interesting; dull:

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

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

2. Facetious

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

► Cheerfully confident; optimistic.

► Lacking serious purpose or occupation; idle.

► Playfully jocular; humorous

3. Gerrymander

► To picture falsely; misrepresent.

► The use of words to express something different from and often opposite to their literal meaning.

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

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

4. Abrogate

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

► A part, portion, or share.

► Eating and drinking in moderation.

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

5. Interpolate

► An extremely distant, and thus old, celestial object whose power output is several thousand times that of our entire galaxy.

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

► To insert or introduce between other elements or parts.

► A sudden manifestation of the essence or meaning of something.

BREACH
DEFINITION: An act of breaking or failing to observe a law, agreement, or code of conduct.	FOUND IN THE NEWS: The Cockroach Janata Party’s three leaders — Abhijeet Dipke, Saurav Das and Ashutosh Ranka — were freed on condition that they commit “no breach of peace for one year,” Ratna Singh, the movement’s legal director, said in a social media post. ►Associated Press, 10/12/2026

BREACH

Words in the News Quiz5 High School Words

Words in the News Quiz
5 High School Words