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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 

ACCESS

DEFINITION:
The freedom or ability to obtain or make use of something.

FOUND IN THE NEWS:
Restrict access to out-of-state entities, like federal agencies, private entities, or other states, unless required by a court order or judicial warrant.
The Duluth News Tribune, 08/24/2026

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. Taxonomy

Division into ordered groups or categories.

Full of or exhibiting servile compliance; fawning.

Something done or paid to compensate or make amends.

Physics that deals with the relationships and conversions between heat and other forms of energy.


2. Chromosome

Something done or paid to compensate or make amends.

Physics that deals with the relationships and conversions between heat and other forms of energy.

An extremely distant, and thus old, celestial object whose power output is several thousand times that of our entire galaxy.

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


3. Fatuous

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

Vacuously, smugly, and unconsciously foolish.

The process in cell division by which the nucleus divides.

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


4. Nanotechnology

To make an accusation against.

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

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

Of the same or similar nature or kind


5. Nihilism

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.

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

To proceed completely around:

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


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