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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. Equinox

Interchanged, given, or owed to each other.

Either of two points on the celestial sphere at which the ecliptic intersects the celestial equator.

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

To repeat in concise form. To make a summary.


2. Subjugate

The lowest point

To bring under control; conquer.

Of the same or similar nature or kind

The basic unit of currency among participating European Union countries.


3. Gamete

The basic unit of currency among participating European Union countries.

To renounce under oath; forswear.

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

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.


4. Antebellum

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

Deception by trickery or sophistry.

A circular strand of DNA in bacteria that contains the hereditary information necessary for cell life.

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


5. Supercilious

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

Of, relating to, or produced by motion.

Feeling or showing haughty disdain.

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


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