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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 

SIMLUATED

DEFINITION:
Made to look like or have the features of something else.

FOUND IN THE NEWS:
Here’s the full simluated injury report:
The Boston Herald, 02/02/2026

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

Facetious

Bowdlerize

Detritus

Vortex


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

Xenophobe

Paradigm

Notarize

Hegemony


3. To weaken or destroy the strength or vitality of.

Enervate

Suffragist

Enfranchise

Impeach


4. To proceed completely around:

Impeach

Churlish

Circumnavigate

Nadir


5. Falling off or shed at a specific season or stage of growth:

Kowtow

Chicanery

Deciduous

Moiety


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