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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 

RESPIRATORY

DEFINITION:
Relating to breathing.

FOUND IN THE NEWS:
They weren’t warned to wear respiratory and other personal protection because the burning composite materials from the F-35 stealth fighter were releasing potentially harmful airborne particles and fibers, according to the lawsuit filed in U.S. District Court in Albuquerque.
The Albuquerque Journal, 03/30/2026

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. Nadir

The lowest point

Something done or paid to compensate or make amends.

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

Physics that deals with the relationships and conversions between heat and other forms of energy.


2. Fatuous

Vacuously, smugly, and unconsciously foolish.

Quickness, accuracy, and keenness of judgment or insight.

To endow with the rights of citizenship, especially the right to vote.

Of or relating to a holding of something in trust for another.


3. Contradiction

To endow with the rights of citizenship, especially the right to vote.

Of or relating to a holding of something in trust for another.

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

Logical incongruity


4. Loquacious

To weaken or destroy the strength or vitality of.

Very talkative; garrulous.

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

To increase the positive charge or valence of (an element) by removing electrons.


5. Totalitarian

A form of government in which the political authority exercises absolute and centralized control over all aspects of life,

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

Falling off or shed at a specific season or stage of growth:

A part, portion, or share.


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