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This Week's Word In The News 

RECOGNITION

DEFINITION:
Identifying someone or something previously encountered, or giving official approval, credit, or attention to an achievement.

FOUND IN THE NEWS:
“Mr. Simon, with the thanks of a grateful nation, community and state in recognition of your dedicated service and sacrifice and bravery to our country, it is an honor to award you your diploma. Congratulations,” Rasmusson said.
►The Forum, 11/16/2026

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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. Irony

► The use of words to express something different from and often opposite to their literal meaning.

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

► A system of names used in an art or science:

► Full of or exhibiting servile compliance; fawning.

2. Vortex

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

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

► Having a bad disposition; surly.

► To separate or get rid of (an undesirable part); eliminate.

3. Tempestuous

► Not interesting; dull:

► Tumultuous; stormy.

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

► Very talkative; garrulous.

4. Precipitous

► A dramatic or literary form of discourse in which a character talks to himself or herself or reveals his or her thoughts without addressing a listener.

► Extremely rapid, hasty, or abrupt; precipitate.

► To show servile deference.

► Lacking serious purpose or occupation; idle.

5. Hypotenuse

► Lacking serious purpose or occupation; idle.

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

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

► The side of a right triangle opposite the right angle.

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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.