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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 

ACQUAINTANCE

DEFINITION:
A person one knows slightly, but who is not a close friend.

FOUND IN THE NEWS:
When photographer Peter Turnley was just 20 years old, an acquaintance from the California Office of Economic Opportunity reached out to him with a question.
►The Los Angeles Times, 12/01/2025

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. Subjugate

► A product of disintegration, destruction, or wearing away; debris.

► To bring under control; conquer.

► The basic unit of currency among participating European Union countries.

► Government by a few, especially by a small faction of persons or families.

2. Circumnavigate

► Government by a few, especially by a small faction of persons or families.

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

► To modify, as by shortening or simplifying or by skewing the content in a certain manner.

► To proceed completely around:

3. Abstemious

► Having a bad disposition; surly.

► A form of government in which the political authority exercises absolute and centralized control over all aspects of life,

► Eating and drinking in moderation.

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

4. Sanguine

► To remove erroneous, vulgar, obscene, or otherwise objectionable material from (a book, for example) before publication.

► Of the same or similar nature or kind

► Extremely rapid, hasty, or abrupt; precipitate.

► Cheerfully confident; optimistic.

5. Recapitulate

► To endow with the rights of citizenship, especially the right to vote.

► To make an accusation against.

► Having one’s true identity concealed.

► To repeat in concise form. To make a summary.

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