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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 

SHRAPNEL

DEFINITION:
Pieces of a bomb, shell, or bullet that has exploded.

FOUND IN THE NEWS:
The U.S. military exercise that shot live-fire artillery rounds over Interstate 5 on Saturday dropped metal shrapnel onto a California Highway Patrol protective services detail for Vice President JD Vance, agency officials said Sunday.
The Los Angeles Times, 10/20/2025

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. Xenophobe

Noninterference in the affairs of others.

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

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

Interchanged, given, or owed to each other.


2. Abstemious

Impossible to dispute; unquestionable

Eating and drinking in moderation.

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

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


3. Bowdlerize

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

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.

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

To abolish, do away with, or annul, especially by authority.


4. Circumnavigate

Of, relating to, or produced by motion.

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

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

To proceed completely around:


5. Feckless

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.

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

Lacking purpose or vitality; feeble or ineffective.

The act or process of inhaling and exhaling; breathing.


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