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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.
This Week's Word In The News 

ACCOST

DEFINITION:
To approach and speak to (someone) in an often challenging or aggressive way.

FOUND IN THE NEWS:
As their identities became more public, the operators were even accosted in their off hours.
The Anchorage Daily News, 09/21/2026

Words in the News Quiz
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. Inculcate

A diligent, dependable worker.

Characterized by affected, exaggerated, or insincere earnestness.

To impress (something) upon the mind of another by frequent instruction or repetition; instill.

Something done or paid to compensate or make amends.


2. Chicanery

Interchanged, given, or owed to each other.

Deception by trickery or sophistry.

Very talkative; garrulous.

A set of assumptions, concepts, values, and practices that constitutes a way of viewing reality


3. Irony

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

A product of disintegration, destruction, or wearing away; debris.

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

The use of obstructionist tactics, especially prolonged speechmaking, for the purpose of delaying legislative action.


4. Laissez faire

The use of obstructionist tactics, especially prolonged speechmaking, for the purpose of delaying legislative action.

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

Noninterference in the affairs of others.

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


5. Gamete

A reproductive cell having the haploid number of chromosomes, especially a mature sperm or egg capable of fusing with a gamete of the opposite sex to produce the fertilized egg.

Full of or exhibiting servile compliance; fawning.

To certify or attest to (the validity of a signature on a document, for example) as a notary public.

A doctrine holding that all values are baseless and that nothing can be known or communicated.


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