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Words in the News

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

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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. A place or situation regarded as drawing into its center all that surrounds it.

Circumlocution

Quasar

Abjure

Vortex


2. Feeling or showing haughty disdain.

Incontrovertible

Orthography

Supercilious

Xenophobe


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

Irony

Soliloquy

Diffident

Nihilism


4. Eating and drinking in moderation.

Hypotenuse

Moiety

Abstemious

Sanguine


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

Mitosis

Paradigm

Antebellum

Chromosome


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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.