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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 

RESPIRATORY

DEFINITION:
Relating to breathing.

FOUND IN THE NEWS:
They weren’t warned to wear respiratory and other personal protection because the burning composite materials from the F-35 stealth fighter were releasing potentially harmful airborne particles and fibers, according to the lawsuit filed in U.S. District Court in Albuquerque.
The Albuquerque Journal, 03/30/2026

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. Expurgate

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

Not interesting; dull:

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

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


2. Gauche

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

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

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

Lacking social polish; tactless.


3. Contradiction

Logical incongruity

Having a bad disposition; surly.

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

Cheerfully confident; optimistic.


4. Thermodynamics

Cheerfully confident; optimistic.

To abolish, do away with, or annul, especially by authority.

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

A sudden manifestation of the essence or meaning of something.


5. Polymer

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.

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

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

A doctrine holding that all values are baseless and that nothing can be known or communicated.


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