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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 

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

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

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

► To picture falsely; misrepresent.

► Of or relating to a holding of something in trust for another.

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


2. Parabola

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

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

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

► Something done or paid to compensate or make amends.


3. Wrought

► A diligent, dependable worker.

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

► Everyday; commonplace.

► Put together; created.


4. Kinetic

► Lacking social polish; tactless.

► Of, relating to, or produced by motion.

► Vanishing or likely to vanish like vapor.

► Interchanged, given, or owed to each other.


5. Orthography

► Interchanged, given, or owed to each other.

► To remove erroneous, vulgar, obscene, or otherwise objectionable material from (a book, for example) before publication.

► Vacuously, smugly, and unconsciously foolish.

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


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