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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 

VERTEBRAE

DEFINITION:
Each of the series of small bones forming the backbone.

FOUND IN THE NEWS:
The photographer with The Washington Post who was attacked by Jewish settlers in the occupied West Bank so badly that several vertebrae were broken said Sunday she was increasingly angry that Israel’s military seems to protect settlers more than the Palestinians they threaten.
►Associated Press, 10/19/2026

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. Equinox

► The basic unit of currency among participating European Union countries.

► Either of two points on the celestial sphere at which the ecliptic intersects the celestial equator.

► A sudden manifestation of the essence or meaning of something.

► Playfully jocular; humorous


2. Sanguine

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

► Cheerfully confident; optimistic.

► Something done or paid to compensate or make amends.

► A diligent, dependable worker.


3. Abrogate

► A diligent, dependable worker.

► A factor that determines a range of variations; a boundary

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

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


4. Infrastructure

► Clear to the understanding.

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

► The use of words to express something different from and often opposite to their literal meaning.

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


5. Hemoglobin

► The art or study of correct spelling according to established usage.

► The iron-containing respiratory pigment in red blood cells of vertebrates.

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

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


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