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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 

PLOY

DEFINITION:
A cunning plan or action designed to turn a situation to one's own advantage.

FOUND IN THE NEWS:
“First of all, I think it’s important to recognize that the majority of the American people find this behavior deeply troubling,” said the 44th president, conceding that it does serve as an effective distraction and ploy for attention.
The Boston Herald, 02/16/2026

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. Chicanery

Deception by trickery or sophistry.

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

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

Cheerfully confident; optimistic.


2. Kowtow

Interchanged, given, or owed to each other.

To show servile deference.

Overbearing pride or presumption; arrogance.

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


3. Ziggurat

Characterized by forcefulness of expression or intensity of emotion or conviction; fervid.

Vacuously, smugly, and unconsciously foolish.

A temple tower of the ancient Assyrians and Babylonians, having the form of a terraced pyramid of successively receding stories.

Very talkative; garrulous.


4. Antebellum

Of, relating to, or produced by motion.

Put together; created.

Belonging to the period before a war, especially the American Civil War.

An extremely distant, and thus old, celestial object whose power output is several thousand times that of our entire galaxy.


5. Winnow

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

To insert or introduce between other elements or parts.

To separate or get rid of (an undesirable part); eliminate.

Something done or paid to compensate or make amends.


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