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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. Abjure

► 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.

► To renounce under oath; forswear.

► Put together; created.

► A circular strand of DNA in bacteria that contains the hereditary information necessary for cell life.

2. Polymer

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

► Extremely rapid, hasty, or abrupt; precipitate.

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

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

3. Hemoglobin

► The iron-containing respiratory pigment in red blood cells of vertebrates.

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

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

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

4. Hypotenuse

► The side of a right triangle opposite the right angle.

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

► Vacuously, smugly, and unconsciously foolish.

► To abolish, do away with, or annul, especially by authority.

5. Quasar

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

► An extremely distant, and thus old, celestial object whose power output is several thousand times that of our entire galaxy.

► The use of unnecessarily wordy and indirect language.

► A marked change in appearance, character, condition, or function.

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