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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

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

Vacuous

Sanguine

Nanotechnology

Gamete


2. Very talkative; garrulous.

Facetious

Enervate

Nihilism

Loquacious


3. Having a bad disposition; surly.

Nadir

Churlish

Wrought

Abrogate


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

Tempestuous

Quasar

Lucid

Subjugate


5. A dramatic or literary form of discourse in which a character talks to himself or herself or reveals his or her thoughts without addressing a listener.

Circumlocution

Notarize

Soliloquy

Abjure


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