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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 

INFLUENCER

DEFINITION:
Someone who uses their online reputation to prompt people to buy things.

FOUND IN THE NEWS:
“We have a lot of influencers who’ve come in and a lot of community members who have seen us through social media and come in and sell,” said Jessica Lucero, owner of In The Middle.
The Albuquerque Journal, 08/17/2026

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. Unctuous

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

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

Characterized by affected, exaggerated, or insincere earnestness.

Lacking purpose or vitality; feeble or ineffective.


2. Kinetic

Full of or exhibiting servile compliance; fawning.

Of, relating to, or produced by motion.

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

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


3. Polymer

Having one’s true identity concealed.

To repeat in concise form. To make a summary.

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

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


4. Paradigm

A set of assumptions, concepts, values, and practices that constitutes a way of viewing reality

Having a harmful effect; injurious.

Of the same or similar nature or kind

Feeling or showing haughty disdain.


5. Orthography

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

The act or process of inhaling and exhaling; breathing.

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

Something done or paid to compensate or make amends.


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