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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

ADVERSE
DEFINITION: Having a negative or harmful effect on something.	FOUND IN THE NEWS: There was no evidence of “any adverse or harmful chemical or other exposures,” he wrote. ►The Boston Herald, 06/15/2026

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. Thermodynamics

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

► A diligent, dependable worker.

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

► Having a harmful effect; injurious.

2. Nadir

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

► Having a harmful effect; injurious.

► Characterized by affected, exaggerated, or insincere earnestness.

► The lowest point

3. Bowdlerize

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