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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. Feckless

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

► Not limited to or associated with a particular religious denomination.

► To divide (a geographic area) into voting districts so as to give unfair advantage to one party in elections.

► Lacking purpose or vitality; feeble or ineffective.


2. Supercilious

► Interchanged, given, or owed to each other.

► 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.

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

► Feeling or showing haughty disdain.


3. Pecuniary

► Government by a few, especially by a small faction of persons or families.

► To repeat in concise form. To make a summary.

► Of or relating to money

► Clear to the understanding.


4. Nomenclature

► The lowest point

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

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

► A system of names used in an art or science:


5. Plasma

► Of the same or similar nature or kind

► Vanishing or likely to vanish like vapor.

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

► Tumultuous; stormy.


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