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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.

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. Filibuster

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

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

► Having unlimited or universal power, authority, or force; all-powerful.

► Vanishing or likely to vanish like vapor.

2. Temblor

► Shaking and vibration at the surface of the earth resulting from underground movement along a fault plane.

► A plane curve formed by the intersection of a right circular cone and a plane parallel to an element of the cone.

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

► Playfully jocular; humorous

3. Soliloquy

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

► Playfully jocular; humorous

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

► 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.

4. Winnow

► To endow with the rights of citizenship, especially the right to vote.

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

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

► The lowest point

5. Lucid

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

► Clear to the understanding.

► The predominant influence, as of a state, region, or group, over another or others.

► To bring under control; conquer.

BREACH
DEFINITION: An act of breaking or failing to observe a law, agreement, or code of conduct.	FOUND IN THE NEWS: The Cockroach Janata Party’s three leaders — Abhijeet Dipke, Saurav Das and Ashutosh Ranka — were freed on condition that they commit “no breach of peace for one year,” Ratna Singh, the movement’s legal director, said in a social media post. ►Associated Press, 10/12/2026

BREACH

Words in the News Quiz5 High School Words

Words in the News Quiz
5 High School Words