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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. Fatuous

The act or process of inhaling and exhaling; breathing.

Vacuously, smugly, and unconsciously foolish.

Something done or paid to compensate or make amends.

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


2. Reciprocal

Interchanged, given, or owed to each other.

To make an accusation against.

Playfully jocular; humorous

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


3. Expurgate

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

To remove erroneous, vulgar, obscene, or otherwise objectionable material from (a book, for example) before publication.

To proceed completely around:

Impossible to dispute; unquestionable


4. Evanescent

Having unlimited or universal power, authority, or force; all-powerful.

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

Vanishing or likely to vanish like vapor.

The clear, yellowish fluid portion of blood, lymph, or intramuscular fluid in which cells are suspended.


5. Suffragist

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

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

To seize another’s place, authority, or possession wrongfully.

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


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