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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 

BILLIONAIRE

DEFINITION:
One whose wealth is estimated at a billion or more dollars, pounds, or other monetary units.

FOUND IN THE NEWS:
About a dozen people took part in the “March for billionaires” on Saturday morning in San Francisco to raise awareness about the plight of the ultrarich.
The Los Angeles Times, 02/09/2026

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

The science and technology of building electronic circuits and devices from single atoms and molecules.

A stock of terms used in a particular profession, subject, or style; a vocabulary:

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

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


2. Inculcate

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

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

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.

An underlying base or foundation especially for an organization or system.


3. Hegemony

An underlying base or foundation especially for an organization or system.

Lacking serious purpose or occupation; idle.

The predominant influence, as of a state, region, or group, over another or others.

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


4. Obsequious

Full of or exhibiting servile compliance; fawning.

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

Logical incongruity

To abolish, do away with, or annul, especially by authority.


5. Kowtow

To show servile deference.

Feeling or showing haughty disdain.

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

A sudden manifestation of the essence or meaning of something.


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