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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 

PARLIAMENTARIAN

DEFINITION:
A consultant who advises the presiding officer and other officers, committees, and members on matters of parliamentary procedure.

FOUND IN THE NEWS:
Mia Cooper, a parliamentarian for the district, brought her daughter to district meetings and state-level education forums as the girl grew up.
►The Los Angeles Times, 03/09/2026

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. Usurp

► To seize another’s place, authority, or possession wrongfully.

► Architectural.

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

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

2. Incontrovertible

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

► Characterized by forcefulness of expression or intensity of emotion or conviction; fervid.

► Impossible to dispute; unquestionable

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

3. Hubris

► Overbearing pride or presumption; arrogance.

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

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

► Of or relating to money

4. Reciprocal

► Noninterference in the affairs of others.

► Interchanged, given, or owed to each other.

► To make an accusation against.

► A system of names used in an art or science:

5. Fatuous

► 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.

► Either of two points on the celestial sphere at which the ecliptic intersects the celestial equator.

► Vacuously, smugly, and unconsciously foolish.

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

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