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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 

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DEFINITION:
An answer to a question or a reaction to something.

FOUND IN THE NEWS:
“And the response right away was ‘Sure!’”
The Reading Eagle, 09/07/2026

Words in the News Quiz
5 High School Words

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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. Deciduous

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

To insert or introduce between other elements or parts.

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

Extremely rapid, hasty, or abrupt; precipitate.


2. Infrastructure

Playfully jocular; humorous

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

Deception by trickery or sophistry.

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


3. Acumen

Quickness, accuracy, and keenness of judgment or insight.

A system of names used in an art or science:

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

Full of or exhibiting servile compliance; fawning.


4. Nihilism

The basic unit of currency among participating European Union countries.

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

Eating and drinking in moderation.

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


5. Totalitarian

To make an accusation against.

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

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

To repeat in concise form. To make a summary.


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