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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 

RENDERING

DEFINITION:
Giving something to someone.

FOUND IN THE NEWS:
The replay booth has been working overtime in the Stanley Cup Final, and the officials charged with rendering the final verdicts probably won’t be getting any comped dinners in Las Vegas anytime soon.
The Las Vegas Review-Journal, 06/08/2026

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. Detritus

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

To make an accusation against.

To divide (a geographic area) into voting districts so as to give unfair advantage to one party in elections.

Playfully jocular; humorous


2. Nonsectarian

To divide (a geographic area) into voting districts so as to give unfair advantage to one party in elections.

Playfully jocular; humorous

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

Not limited to or associated with a particular religious denomination.


3. Inculcate

A diligent, dependable worker.

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

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

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


4. Diffident

Lacking or marked by a lack of self-confidence; shy and timid.

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

A system of names used in an art or science:

To modify, as by shortening or simplifying or by skewing the content in a certain manner.


5. Hemoglobin

Division into ordered groups or categories.

The iron-containing respiratory pigment in red blood cells of vertebrates.

To insert or introduce between other elements or parts.

To repeat in concise form. To make a summary.


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