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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. Abstemious

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

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

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

Eating and drinking in moderation.


2. Wrought

Noninterference in the affairs of others.

Put together; created.

The use of unnecessarily wordy and indirect language.

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


3. Bowdlerize

To make an accusation against.

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

A sudden manifestation of the essence or meaning of something.

A factor that determines a range of variations; a boundary


4. Nadir

A factor that determines a range of variations; a boundary

The process in green plants and certain other organisms by which carbohydrates are synthesized from carbon dioxide and water using light as an energy source.

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

The lowest point


5. Abjure

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

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

A system of names used in an art or science:

To renounce under oath; forswear.


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