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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 

PARLAY

DEFINITION:
A single bet that links together two or more individual wagers

FOUND IN THE NEWS:
Then comes the parlay attempt.
The Key West Citizen, 01/05/2026

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. Thermodynamics

Not limited to or associated with a particular religious denomination.

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

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

To make an accusation against.


2. Laissez faire

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

Noninterference in the affairs of others.

The basic unit of currency among participating European Union countries.

Eating and drinking in moderation.


3. Orthography

The art or study of correct spelling according to established usage.

Full of or exhibiting servile compliance; fawning.

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

Impossible to dispute; unquestionable


4. Suffragist

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

Of or relating to a holding of something in trust for another.

The use of unnecessarily wordy and indirect language.

Everyday; commonplace.


5. Nomenclature

A dramatic or literary form of discourse in which a character talks to himself or herself or reveals his or her thoughts without addressing a listener.

A system of names used in an art or science:

Cheerfully confident; optimistic.

A diligent, dependable worker.


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