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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. Gamete

Vanishing or likely to vanish like vapor.

A reproductive cell having the haploid number of chromosomes, especially a mature sperm or egg capable of fusing with a gamete of the opposite sex to produce the fertilized egg.

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

To show servile deference.


2. Notarize

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

To make an accusation against.

To certify or attest to (the validity of a signature on a document, for example) as a notary public.

The use of unnecessarily wordy and indirect language.


3. Xenophobe

Clear to the understanding.

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

A circular strand of DNA in bacteria that contains the hereditary information necessary for cell life.

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


4. Jejune

Not interesting; dull:

Not limited to or associated with a particular religious denomination.

Vacuously, smugly, and unconsciously foolish.

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


5. Incontrovertible

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

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

Impossible to dispute; unquestionable

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


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