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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 

PARLIAMENTARIAN

DEFINITION:
A consultant who advises the presiding officer and other officers, committees, and members on matters of parliamentary procedure.

FOUND IN THE NEWS:
Mia Cooper, a parliamentarian for the district, brought her daughter to district meetings and state-level education forums as the girl grew up.
The Los Angeles Times, 03/09/2026

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. Moiety

A part, portion, or share.

Tumultuous; stormy.

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

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


2. Supercilious

Feeling or showing haughty disdain.

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

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

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


3. Tautology

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

Needless repetition of the same sense in different words; redundancy.

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

Everyday; commonplace.


4. Fiduciary

The use of unnecessarily wordy and indirect language.

The iron-containing respiratory pigment in red blood cells of vertebrates.

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

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


5. Incontrovertible

Of, relating to, or produced by motion.

Impossible to dispute; unquestionable

Quickness, accuracy, and keenness of judgment or insight.

Shaking and vibration at the surface of the earth resulting from underground movement along a fault plane.


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