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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. Parabola

The side of a right triangle opposite the right angle.

Characterized by forcefulness of expression or intensity of emotion or conviction; fervid.

A plane curve formed by the intersection of a right circular cone and a plane parallel to an element of the cone.

Attended by favorable circumstances; propitious.


2. Sanguine

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

Cheerfully confident; optimistic.

To weaken or destroy the strength or vitality of.

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


3. Hubris

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

Clear to the understanding.

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

Overbearing pride or presumption; arrogance.


4. Incontrovertible

Lacking purpose or vitality; feeble or ineffective.

Impossible to dispute; unquestionable

Of the same or similar nature or kind

A person unduly fearful or contemptuous of that which is foreign, especially of strangers or foreign peoples.


5. Belie

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

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

To picture falsely; misrepresent.

The process in cell division by which the nucleus divides.


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