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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 

ROOSTER TAIL

DEFINITION:
A high-arching spray (as of water, dust, or snow) thrown up behind a fast-moving motorboat, motor vehicle, or skier.

FOUND IN THE NEWS:
A second red flag was waved during the fifth race of the day when Rollin Transport got into a rooster tail on the turn of the first lap, resulting in the boat going onto its side before flipping.
The Key West Citizen, 11/10/2025

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. Wrought

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

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

Put together; created.

Mournful, dismal, or gloomy, especially to an exaggerated or ludicrous degree.


2. Fatuous

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

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

A system of names used in an art or science:

Vacuously, smugly, and unconsciously foolish.


3. Polymer

Lacking serious purpose or occupation; idle.

To weaken or destroy the strength or vitality of.

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

Eating and drinking in moderation.


4. Reparation

Having one’s true identity concealed.

Architectural.

Something done or paid to compensate or make amends.

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.


5. Nihilism

To make an accusation against.

Quickness, accuracy, and keenness of judgment or insight.

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

Attended by favorable circumstances; propitious.


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