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Words in the News

This Week's Word In The News 

INFLUENCER

DEFINITION:
Someone who uses their online reputation to prompt people to buy things.

FOUND IN THE NEWS:
“We have a lot of influencers who’ve come in and a lot of community members who have seen us through social media and come in and sell,” said Jessica Lucero, owner of In The Middle.
The Albuquerque Journal, 08/17/2026

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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 stock of terms used in a particular profession, subject, or style; a vocabulary:

Acumen

Lexicon

Tectonic

Metamorphosis


2. To divide (a geographic area) into voting districts so as to give unfair advantage to one party in elections.

Contradiction

Tempestuous

Gerrymander

Subjugate


3. Lacking serious purpose or occupation; idle.

Nomenclature

Vacuous

Paradigm

Fiduciary


4. A sudden manifestation of the essence or meaning of something.

Fiduciary

Pecuniary

Jejune

Epiphany


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

Plasma

Hemoglobin

Thermodynamics

Expurgate


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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.