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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 

EXTINGUISH

DEFINITION:
To stop a fire or a light from burning. To bring to an end.

FOUND IN THE NEWS:
Fargo police responded and attempted to put the fire out before the Fargo Fire Department extinguished the fire.
The Forum of Fargo-Moorhead, 08/31/2026

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. Paradigm

A diligent, dependable worker.

Of, relating to, or produced by motion.

Playfully jocular; humorous

A set of assumptions, concepts, values, and practices that constitutes a way of viewing reality


2. Enfranchise

Of the same or similar nature or kind

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

Interchanged, given, or owed to each other.

To proceed completely around:


3. Precipitous

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

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

Extremely rapid, hasty, or abrupt; precipitate.

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


4. Totalitarian

Eating and drinking in moderation.

Lacking purpose or vitality; feeble or ineffective.

A form of government in which the political authority exercises absolute and centralized control over all aspects of life,

The science and technology of building electronic circuits and devices from single atoms and molecules.


5. Quasar

An extremely distant, and thus old, celestial object whose power output is several thousand times that of our entire galaxy.

Lacking social polish; tactless.

Shaking and vibration at the surface of the earth resulting from underground movement along a fault plane.

A factor that determines a range of variations; a boundary


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