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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 

ENTICING

DEFINITION:
Arousing strong attraction or interest.

FOUND IN THE NEWS:
Meta makes enticing claims for Muse’s capabilities.
►The Los Angeles Times, 10/05/2026

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. Respiration

► The act or process of inhaling and exhaling; breathing.

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

► Lacking social polish; tactless.

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


2. Hypotenuse

► Lacking social polish; tactless.

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

► Of or relating to a holding of something in trust for another.

► The side of a right triangle opposite the right angle.


3. Thermodynamics

► Physics that deals with the relationships and conversions between heat and other forms of energy.

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

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

► Not limited to or associated with a particular religious denomination.


4. Auspicious

► Attended by favorable circumstances; propitious.

► A sudden manifestation of the essence or meaning of something.

► Feeling or showing haughty disdain.

► A stock of terms used in a particular profession, subject, or style; a vocabulary:


5. Chicanery

► Feeling or showing haughty disdain.

► A stock of terms used in a particular profession, subject, or style; a vocabulary:

► To modify, as by shortening or simplifying or by skewing the content in a certain manner.

► Deception by trickery or sophistry.


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