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Words in the News

This Week's Word In The News 

ACCESS

DEFINITION:
The freedom or ability to obtain or make use of something.

FOUND IN THE NEWS:
Restrict access to out-of-state entities, like federal agencies, private entities, or other states, unless required by a court order or judicial warrant.
The Duluth News Tribune, 08/24/2026

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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. Tautology

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.

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

Lacking or marked by a lack of self-confidence; shy and timid.

Quickness, accuracy, and keenness of judgment or insight.


2. Precipitous

Extremely rapid, hasty, or abrupt; precipitate.

Of, relating to, or produced by motion.

Logical incongruity

Government by a few, especially by a small faction of persons or families.


3. Xenophobe

A person unduly fearful or contemptuous of that which is foreign, especially of strangers or foreign peoples.

To renounce under oath; forswear.

To modify, as by shortening or simplifying or by skewing the content in a certain manner.

A form of government in which the political authority exercises absolute and centralized control over all aspects of life,


4. Subjugate

A form of government in which the political authority exercises absolute and centralized control over all aspects of life,

A marked change in appearance, character, condition, or function.

To bring under control; conquer.

Impossible to dispute; unquestionable


5. Nomenclature

Falling off or shed at a specific season or stage of growth:

A system of names used in an art or science:

To repeat in concise form. To make a summary.

Having a bad disposition; surly.


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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.