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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. Antebellum

Feeling or showing haughty disdain.

Of the same or similar nature or kind

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

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


2. Suffragist

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

Of or relating to money

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

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


3. Expurgate

The clear, yellowish fluid portion of blood, lymph, or intramuscular fluid in which cells are suspended.

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

A diligent, dependable worker.

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


4. Reciprocal

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

To picture falsely; misrepresent.

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

Interchanged, given, or owed to each other.


5. Thermodynamics

Overbearing pride or presumption; arrogance.

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

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

The basic unit of currency among participating European Union countries.


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