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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. Abrogate

Cheerfully confident; optimistic.

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

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

Playfully jocular; humorous


2. Lexicon

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

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.

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

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.


3. Enfranchise

Overbearing pride or presumption; arrogance.

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

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

Impossible to dispute; unquestionable


4. Metamorphosis

Impossible to dispute; unquestionable

Put together; created.

The side of a right triangle opposite the right angle.

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


5. Yeoman

A part, portion, or share.

A diligent, dependable worker.

Something done or paid to compensate or make amends.

A system of names used in an art or science:


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