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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 

WRANGLING

DEFINITION:
Moving a person or thing somewhere, usually with difficulty or using force.

FOUND IN THE NEWS:
The location in Alexandria, Louisiana, would remove logistical headaches caused by wrangling children from foster homes and shelters across the country and not having anywhere to put them during final preparations for flight.
The Boston Herald, 07/13/2026

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. Fiduciary

To bring under control; conquer.

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

Lacking or marked by a lack of self-confidence; shy and timid.

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


2. Mitosis

The process in cell division by which the nucleus divides.

Belonging to the period before a war, especially the American Civil War.

A place or situation regarded as drawing into its center all that surrounds it.

Lacking serious purpose or occupation; idle.


3. Recapitulate

Lacking serious purpose or occupation; idle.

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

To repeat in concise form. To make a summary.

Clear to the understanding.


4. Feckless

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

To show servile deference.

Lacking purpose or vitality; feeble or ineffective.

Needless repetition of the same sense in different words; redundancy.


5. Laissez faire

Of, relating to, or produced by motion.

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

Noninterference in the affairs of others.

A doctrine holding that all values are baseless and that nothing can be known or communicated.


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