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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

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. Enervate

To weaken or destroy the strength or vitality of.

Having one’s true identity concealed.

Having a bad disposition; surly.

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


2. Soliloquy

Having a bad disposition; surly.

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

Warlike in manner or temperament; pugnacious.

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.


3. Metamorphosis

A marked change in appearance, character, condition, or function.

Noninterference in the affairs of others.

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.

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


4. Hegemony

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

Vacuously, smugly, and unconsciously foolish.

The predominant influence, as of a state, region, or group, over another or others.

To make an accusation against.


5. Gerrymander

To remove erroneous, vulgar, obscene, or otherwise objectionable material from (a book, for example) before publication.

The use of words to express something different from and often opposite to their literal meaning.

To divide (a geographic area) into voting districts so as to give unfair advantage to one party in elections.

A factor that determines a range of variations; a boundary


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