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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. Obsequious

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

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.

Full of or exhibiting servile compliance; fawning.

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


2. Abstemious

Eating and drinking in moderation.

Tumultuous; stormy.

Extremely rapid, hasty, or abrupt; precipitate.

A factor that determines a range of variations; a boundary


3. Supercilious

A factor that determines a range of variations; a boundary

A circular strand of DNA in bacteria that contains the hereditary information necessary for cell life.

Feeling or showing haughty disdain.

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


4. Oxidize

Playfully jocular; humorous

Very talkative; garrulous.

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

Overbearing pride or presumption; arrogance.


5. Omnipotent

Vanishing or likely to vanish like vapor.

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

To weaken or destroy the strength or vitality of.

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


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