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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. Filibuster

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

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.

Not interesting; dull:

The use of obstructionist tactics, especially prolonged speechmaking, for the purpose of delaying legislative action.


2. Inculcate

Needless repetition of the same sense in different words; redundancy.

Having a bad disposition; surly.

Very talkative; garrulous.

To impress (something) upon the mind of another by frequent instruction or repetition; instill.


3. Supercilious

Feeling or showing haughty disdain.

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

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

To make an accusation against.


4. Abstemious

Everyday; commonplace.

Eating and drinking in moderation.

Characterized by affected, exaggerated, or insincere earnestness.

Either of two points on the celestial sphere at which the ecliptic intersects the celestial equator.


5. Facetious

Extremely rapid, hasty, or abrupt; precipitate.

An advocate of the extension of political voting rights, especially to women.

Playfully jocular; humorous

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


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