Words in the News

This Week's Word In The News 

EXTINGUISH

DEFINITION:
To stop a fire or a light from burning. To bring to an end.

FOUND IN THE NEWS:
Fargo police responded and attempted to put the fire out before the Fargo Fire Department extinguished the fire.
►The Forum of Fargo-Moorhead, 08/31/2026

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5 High School Words

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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. Epiphany

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

► Feeling or showing haughty disdain.

► 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.

► Vanishing or likely to vanish like vapor.

2. Vacuous

► Lacking serious purpose or occupation; idle.

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

► Cheerfully confident; optimistic.

► Architectural.

3. Lugubrious

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

► A product of disintegration, destruction, or wearing away; debris.

► The process in green plants and certain other organisms by which carbohydrates are synthesized from carbon dioxide and water using light as an energy source.

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

4. Gamete

► The process in green plants and certain other organisms by which carbohydrates are synthesized from carbon dioxide and water using light as an energy source.

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

► The act or process of inhaling and exhaling; breathing.

► A reproductive cell having the haploid number of chromosomes, especially a mature sperm or egg capable of fusing with a gamete of the opposite sex to produce the fertilized egg.

5. Oligarchy

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

► Overbearing pride or presumption; arrogance.

► Government by a few, especially by a small faction of persons or families.

► Having a bad disposition; surly.

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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.