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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. Totalitarian

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

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

Of, relating to, or produced by motion.

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


2. Kowtow

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

To make an accusation against.

To show servile deference.

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.


3. Evanescent

To bring under control; conquer.

To weaken or destroy the strength or vitality of.

Vanishing or likely to vanish like vapor.

Warlike in manner or temperament; pugnacious.


4. Gauche

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

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

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

Lacking social polish; tactless.


5. Deciduous

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

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

Noninterference in the affairs of others.

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


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