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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 

PROACTIVE

DEFINITION:
Taking action to control a situation rather than responding to it after it has happened.

FOUND IN THE NEWS:
LoPilato said the policy aims to be proactive, rather than allowing more violence to take place before regulating the problem.
The Los Angeles Times, 07/20/2026

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. Temblor

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

To renounce under oath; forswear.

To divide (a geographic area) into voting districts so as to give unfair advantage to one party in elections.

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


2. Orthography

The art or study of correct spelling according to established usage.

Eating and drinking in moderation.

Extremely rapid, hasty, or abrupt; precipitate.

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


3. Soliloquy

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.

Lacking social polish; tactless.

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

Either of two points on the celestial sphere at which the ecliptic intersects the celestial equator.


4. Chicanery

Deception by trickery or sophistry.

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 seize another’s place, authority, or possession wrongfully.

Of the same or similar nature or kind


5. Polymer

To seize another’s place, authority, or possession wrongfully.

Of the same or similar nature or kind

The use of unnecessarily wordy and indirect language.

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


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