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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 

ACCESS

DEFINITION:
The freedom or ability to obtain or make use of something.

FOUND IN THE NEWS:
Restrict access to out-of-state entities, like federal agencies, private entities, or other states, unless required by a court order or judicial warrant.
The Duluth News Tribune, 08/24/2026

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. Kowtow

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

The lowest point

The predominant influence, as of a state, region, or group, over another or others.

To show servile deference.


2. Incontrovertible

An underlying base or foundation especially for an organization or system.

Impossible to dispute; unquestionable

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

A form of government in which the political authority exercises absolute and centralized control over all aspects of life,


3. Omnipotent

Very talkative; garrulous.

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

A reproductive cell having the haploid number of chromosomes, especially a mature sperm or egg capable of fusing with a gamete of the opposite sex to produce the fertilized egg.

A diligent, dependable worker.


4. Auspicious

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

Attended by favorable circumstances; propitious.

A sudden manifestation of the essence or meaning of something.

Any of numerous natural and synthetic compounds consisting of up to millions of repeated linked units,


5. Temblor

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

Of the same or similar nature or kind

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

Having a harmful effect; injurious.


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