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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 

RENDERING

DEFINITION:
Giving something to someone.

FOUND IN THE NEWS:
The replay booth has been working overtime in the Stanley Cup Final, and the officials charged with rendering the final verdicts probably won’t be getting any comped dinners in Las Vegas anytime soon.
►The Las Vegas Review-Journal, 06/08/2026

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. Suffragist

► Very talkative; garrulous.

► Having a bad disposition; surly.

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

► To insert or introduce between other elements or parts.

2. Quotidian

► Characterized by affected, exaggerated, or insincere earnestness.

► Everyday; commonplace.

► To show servile deference.

► To separate or get rid of (an undesirable part); eliminate.

3. Irony

► Deception by trickery or sophistry.

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

► The use of words to express something different from and often opposite to their literal meaning.

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

4. Respiration

► Mournful, dismal, or gloomy, especially to an exaggerated or ludicrous degree.

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

► To weaken or destroy the strength or vitality of.

► A part, portion, or share.

5. Orthography

► A part, portion, or share.

► A dramatic or literary form of discourse in which a character talks to himself or herself or reveals his or her thoughts without addressing a listener.

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

► The art or study of correct spelling according to established usage.

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