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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 

ENTICING

DEFINITION:
Arousing strong attraction or interest.

FOUND IN THE NEWS:
Meta makes enticing claims for Muse’s capabilities.
►The Los Angeles Times, 10/05/2026

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. Circumlocution

► The use of unnecessarily wordy and indirect language.

► An extremely distant, and thus old, celestial object whose power output is several thousand times that of our entire galaxy.

► The use of obstructionist tactics, especially prolonged speechmaking, for the purpose of delaying legislative action.

► Lacking purpose or vitality; feeble or ineffective.


2. Hypotenuse

► The use of obstructionist tactics, especially prolonged speechmaking, for the purpose of delaying legislative action.

► Lacking purpose or vitality; feeble or ineffective.

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

► The side of a right triangle opposite the right angle.


3. Chromosome

► To bring under control; conquer.

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

► Division into ordered groups or categories.

► Very talkative; garrulous.


4. Nanotechnology

► A product of disintegration, destruction, or wearing away; debris.

► The science and technology of building electronic circuits and devices from single atoms and molecules.

► Everyday; commonplace.

► Cheerfully confident; optimistic.


5. Paradigm

► Eating and drinking in moderation.

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

► 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.

► Of or relating to a holding of something in trust for another.


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