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Words in the News

This Week's Word In The News 

BOON

DEFINITION:
A thing that is helpful or beneficial.

FOUND IN THE NEWS:
A Miami World’s Fair would potentially result in a big tourism boon for the state and region, including the Florida Keys.
The Key West Citizen, 01/26/2026

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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. To proceed completely around:

Circumnavigate

Auspicious

Soliloquy

Lugubrious


2. To insert or introduce between other elements or parts.

Soliloquy

Lugubrious

Contradiction

Interpolate


3. Everyday; commonplace.

Totalitarian

Tectonic

Wrought

Quotidian


4. The science and technology of building electronic circuits and devices from single atoms and molecules.

Inculcate

Nanotechnology

Vacuous

Sanguine


5. Clear to the understanding.

Sanguine

Winnow

Abstemious

Lucid


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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.