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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 

RECOGNITION

DEFINITION:
Identifying someone or something previously encountered, or giving official approval, credit, or attention to an achievement.

FOUND IN THE NEWS:
“Mr. Simon, with the thanks of a grateful nation, community and state in recognition of your dedicated service and sacrifice and bravery to our country, it is an honor to award you your diploma. Congratulations,” Rasmusson said.
►The Forum, 11/16/2026

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. Expurgate

► Cheerfully confident; optimistic.

► Deception by trickery or sophistry.

► The iron-containing respiratory pigment in red blood cells of vertebrates.

► To remove erroneous, vulgar, obscene, or otherwise objectionable material from (a book, for example) before publication.


2. Vortex

► Impossible to dispute; unquestionable

► Of or relating to money

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

► A factor that determines a range of variations; a boundary


3. Respiration

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

► To separate or get rid of (an undesirable part); eliminate.

► Eating and drinking in moderation.

► The act or process of inhaling and exhaling; breathing.


4. Reciprocal

► To proceed completely around:

► The process in green plants and certain other organisms by which carbohydrates are synthesized from carbon dioxide and water using light as an energy source.

► Division into ordered groups or categories.

► Interchanged, given, or owed to each other.


5. Lugubrious

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

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

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

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


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