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This Week's Word In The News 

HEIST

DEFINITION:
A robbery or burglary, especially from an institution such as a bank or museum.

FOUND IN THE NEWS:
Five suspects accused in connection with the heist were taken into custody late Wednesday, bringing the total arrest count to seven.
►The Las Vegas Review-Journal, 11/03/2025

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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. Supercilious

► Full of or exhibiting servile compliance; fawning.

► The process in green plants and certain other organisms by which carbohydrates are synthesized from carbon dioxide and water using light as an energy source.

► Feeling or showing haughty disdain.

► Playfully jocular; humorous

2. Epiphany

► To weaken or destroy the strength or vitality of.

► Not interesting; dull:

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

► A diligent, dependable worker.

3. Quasar

► Clear to the understanding.

► Cheerfully confident; optimistic.

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

► An underlying base or foundation especially for an organization or system.

4. Polymer

► Having a harmful effect; injurious.

► Any of numerous natural and synthetic compounds consisting of up to millions of repeated linked units,

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

► A factor that determines a range of variations; a boundary

5. Hemoglobin

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

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

► Characterized by affected, exaggerated, or insincere earnestness.

► Of or relating to a holding of something in trust for another.

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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.