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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 

ROOSTER TAIL

DEFINITION:
A high-arching spray (as of water, dust, or snow) thrown up behind a fast-moving motorboat, motor vehicle, or skier.

FOUND IN THE NEWS:
A second red flag was waved during the fifth race of the day when Rollin Transport got into a rooster tail on the turn of the first lap, resulting in the boat going onto its side before flipping.
The Key West Citizen, 11/10/2025

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. Polymer

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

Characterized by affected, exaggerated, or insincere earnestness.

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

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


2. Suffragist

Not interesting; dull:

The use of unnecessarily wordy and indirect language.

Quickness, accuracy, and keenness of judgment or insight.

An advocate of the extension of political voting rights, especially to women.


3. Abjure

To renounce under oath; forswear.

To endow with the rights of citizenship, especially the right to vote.

A stock of terms used in a particular profession, subject, or style; a vocabulary:

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


4. Hubris

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

A marked change in appearance, character, condition, or function.

Overbearing pride or presumption; arrogance.

The act or process of inhaling and exhaling; breathing.


5. Paradigm

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

Attended by favorable circumstances; propitious.

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

Deception by trickery or sophistry.


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