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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. 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.

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

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

Cheerfully confident; optimistic.


2. Nanotechnology

The science and technology of building electronic circuits and devices from single atoms and molecules.

Of or relating to money

To insert or introduce between other elements or parts.

Extremely rapid, hasty, or abrupt; precipitate.


3. Tectonic

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

Architectural.

Put together; created.

Needless repetition of the same sense in different words; redundancy.


4. Ziggurat

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

A temple tower of the ancient Assyrians and Babylonians, having the form of a terraced pyramid of successively receding stories.

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

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


5. Deleterious

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

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

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

Having a harmful effect; injurious.


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