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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 

PARLAY

DEFINITION:
A single bet that links together two or more individual wagers

FOUND IN THE NEWS:
Then comes the parlay attempt.
►The Key West Citizen, 01/05/2026

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. Wrought

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

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

► Put together; created.

► Feeling or showing haughty disdain.

2. Jejune

► The lowest point

► An advocate of the extension of political voting rights, especially to women.

► A set of assumptions, concepts, values, and practices that constitutes a way of viewing reality

► Not interesting; dull:

3. Fiduciary

► An underlying base or foundation especially for an organization or system.

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

► The use of obstructionist tactics, especially prolonged speechmaking, for the purpose of delaying legislative action.

► Lacking or marked by a lack of self-confidence; shy and timid.

4. Churlish

► Architectural.

► To renounce under oath; forswear.

► Having a bad disposition; surly.

► Any of numerous natural and synthetic compounds consisting of up to millions of repeated linked units,

5. Taxonomy

► Division into ordered groups or categories.

► Having unlimited or universal power, authority, or force; all-powerful.

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

► Shaking and vibration at the surface of the earth resulting from underground movement along a fault plane.

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