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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 

DISABILITY

DEFINITION:
A physical, mental, cognitive, or developmental condition that makes it more difficult for a person to do certain tasks or participate in daily activities.

FOUND IN THE NEWS:
The agreement last week between Disability-rights groups and Secretary of State Shirley Weber follows an Oct. 2 ruling by U.S. Magistrate Judge Sallie Kim of San Francisco that the current system violates the Americans with Disabilities Act and other laws.
►San Francisco Chronicle, 11/02/2026

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. Impeach

► The lowest point

► To make an accusation against.

► Characterized by affected, exaggerated, or insincere earnestness.

► An advocate of the extension of political voting rights, especially to women.


2. Ziggurat

► Feeling or showing haughty disdain.

► To bring under control; conquer.

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

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


3. Bellicose

► Warlike in manner or temperament; pugnacious.

► Vacuously, smugly, and unconsciously foolish.

► The use of unnecessarily wordy and indirect language.

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


4. Tautology

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

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

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

► The clear, yellowish fluid portion of blood, lymph, or intramuscular fluid in which cells are suspended.


5. Jejune

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

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

► Not interesting; dull:

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


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