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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 

BILLIONAIRE

DEFINITION:
One whose wealth is estimated at a billion or more dollars, pounds, or other monetary units.

FOUND IN THE NEWS:
About a dozen people took part in the “March for billionaires” on Saturday morning in San Francisco to raise awareness about the plight of the ultrarich.
►The Los Angeles Times, 02/09/2026

Words in the News Quiz
5 Elementary 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. hasten

► Brief, concise, to the point.

► To refill; to renew; to supply again or to add a fresh quantity.

► To make something by merging parts.

► To move in a quick fashion.

2. swarm

► Something small enough to escape casual notice.

► A particular geographic region.

► A large or dense group of insects, esp. flying ones.

► Different from one another; of different kinds or sorts

3. analyze

► Examine methodically and in detail the constitution or structure of something, esp. information.

► An individual step, or stage, in any process or scale of values.

► Representation of a concept through symbols or underlying meanings of objects or qualities.

► More or most likely to be exposed to the chance of being attacked or harmed, either physically or emotionally.

4. dispel

► Representation of a concept through symbols or underlying meanings of objects or qualities.

► More or most likely to be exposed to the chance of being attacked or harmed, either physically or emotionally.

► To bring down the size, quantity, value or intensity of something; to diminish, to lower, to impair.

► To drive away by scattering, or so to cause to vanish.

5. jabber

► To attempt to stop the progression of.

► Strange or mysterious, esp. in an unsettling way

► To talk rapidly, indistinctly, or unintelligibly; to utter gibberish or nonsense.

► The line that bounds a circle or other two-dimensional figure.

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