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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. Jejune

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

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

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

► Not interesting; dull:


2. Fiduciary

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

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

► Of, relating to, or produced by motion.

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


3. Oligarchy

► Mournful, dismal, or gloomy, especially to an exaggerated or ludicrous degree.

► The side of a right triangle opposite the right angle.

► Government by a few, especially by a small faction of persons or families.

► Warlike in manner or temperament; pugnacious.


4. Gauche

► Lacking social polish; tactless.

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

► To weaken or destroy the strength or vitality of.

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


5. Abrogate

► The use of unnecessarily wordy and indirect language.

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

► Put together; created.

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


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