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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 

EXTINGUISH

DEFINITION:
To stop a fire or a light from burning. To bring to an end.

FOUND IN THE NEWS:
Fargo police responded and attempted to put the fire out before the Fargo Fire Department extinguished the fire.
The Forum of Fargo-Moorhead, 08/31/2026

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. Expurgate

To increase the positive charge or valence of (an element) by removing electrons.

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

Attended by favorable circumstances; propitious.

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


2. Abjure

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

To renounce under oath; forswear.

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

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


3. Nomenclature

Interchanged, given, or owed to each other.

A system of names used in an art or science:

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

Having a bad disposition; surly.


4. Usurp

Having a bad disposition; surly.

Deception by trickery or sophistry.

Vanishing or likely to vanish like vapor.

To seize another’s place, authority, or possession wrongfully.


5. Plasma

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.

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

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

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


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