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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. Deciduous

A sudden manifestation of the essence or meaning of something.

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

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

Cheerfully confident; optimistic.


2. Ziggurat

Of or relating to money

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

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

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


3. Suffragist

Any of numerous natural and synthetic compounds consisting of up to millions of repeated linked units,

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

Very talkative; garrulous.

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


4. Evanescent

The use of unnecessarily wordy and indirect language.

Having one’s true identity concealed.

To repeat in concise form. To make a summary.

Vanishing or likely to vanish like vapor.


5. Precipitous

Clear to the understanding.

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

Extremely rapid, hasty, or abrupt; precipitate.

The side of a right triangle opposite the right angle.


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