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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 

ACCESS

DEFINITION:
The freedom or ability to obtain or make use of something.

FOUND IN THE NEWS:
Restrict access to out-of-state entities, like federal agencies, private entities, or other states, unless required by a court order or judicial warrant.
The Duluth News Tribune, 08/24/2026

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. Chicanery

Having a harmful effect; injurious.

Deception by trickery or sophistry.

To insert or introduce between other elements or parts.

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


2. Metamorphosis

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

Impossible to dispute; unquestionable

Cheerfully confident; optimistic.

A marked change in appearance, character, condition, or function.


3. Quotidian

Everyday; commonplace.

The side of a right triangle opposite the right angle.

Warlike in manner or temperament; pugnacious.

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


4. Subjugate

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

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

To bring under control; conquer.

Not interesting; dull:


5. Paradigm

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

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

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

The use of unnecessarily wordy and indirect language.


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