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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 

INFLUENCER

DEFINITION:
Someone who uses their online reputation to prompt people to buy things.

FOUND IN THE NEWS:
“We have a lot of influencers who’ve come in and a lot of community members who have seen us through social media and come in and sell,” said Jessica Lucero, owner of In The Middle.
The Albuquerque Journal, 08/17/2026

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. Contradiction

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

A factor that determines a range of variations; a boundary

Logical incongruity

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.


2. Facetious

Playfully jocular; humorous

The use of obstructionist tactics, especially prolonged speechmaking, for the purpose of delaying legislative action.

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

Lacking purpose or vitality; feeble or ineffective.


3. Belie

Eating and drinking in moderation.

To picture falsely; misrepresent.

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

Of, relating to, or produced by motion.


4. Usurp

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

Not limited to or associated with a particular religious denomination.

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

A system of names used in an art or science:


5. Homogeneous

Of the same or similar nature or kind

To certify or attest to (the validity of a signature on a document, for example) as a notary public.

Attended by favorable circumstances; propitious.

A circular strand of DNA in bacteria that contains the hereditary information necessary for cell life.


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