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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 

BREACH

DEFINITION:
An act of breaking or failing to observe a law, agreement, or code of conduct.

FOUND IN THE NEWS:
The Cockroach Janata Party’s three leaders — Abhijeet Dipke, Saurav Das and Ashutosh Ranka — were freed on condition that they commit “no breach of peace for one year,” Ratna Singh, the movement’s legal director, said in a social media post.
►Associated Press, 10/12/2026

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. Respiration

► Noninterference in the affairs of others.

► The predominant influence, as of a state, region, or group, over another or others.

► A person unduly fearful or contemptuous of that which is foreign, especially of strangers or foreign peoples.

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


2. Photosynthesis

► A form of government in which the political authority exercises absolute and centralized control over all aspects of life,

► 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.

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

► Attended by favorable circumstances; propitious.


3. Tautology

► Deception by trickery or sophistry.

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

► To abolish, do away with, or annul, especially by authority.

► Impossible to dispute; unquestionable


4. Loquacious

► Very talkative; garrulous.

► Having unlimited or universal power, authority, or force; all-powerful.

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

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


5. Bowdlerize

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

► Division into ordered groups or categories.

► To modify, as by shortening or simplifying or by skewing the content in a certain manner.

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


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