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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 

INFLUENCER

DEFINITION:
Someone who uses their online reputation to prompt people to buy things.

FOUND IN THE NEWS:
“We have a lot of influencers who’ve come in and a lot of community members who have seen us through social media and come in and sell,” said Jessica Lucero, owner of In The Middle.
The Albuquerque Journal, 08/17/2026

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. Gauche

Deception by trickery or sophistry.

Lacking social polish; tactless.

Architectural.

To modify, as by shortening or simplifying or by skewing the content in a certain manner.


2. Nonsectarian

Not limited to or associated with a particular religious denomination.

Impossible to dispute; unquestionable

Falling off or shed at a specific season or stage of growth:

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


3. Photosynthesis

Falling off or shed at a specific season or stage of growth:

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

Of or relating to money

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.


4. Kowtow

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

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

To impress (something) upon the mind of another by frequent instruction or repetition; instill.

To show servile deference.


5. Thermodynamics

Noninterference in the affairs of others.

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

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

To renounce under oath; forswear.


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