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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 

DETECTION

DEFINITION:
The action or process of identifying the presence of something concealed.

FOUND IN THE NEWS:
He added that the district is also examining “various weapon detection systems on the market to see if any of them might be viable for us,” as well as state-of-the-art camera technology.
►The Albuquerque Journal, 09/15/2025

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. Deciduous

► Lacking social polish; tactless.

► 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.

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

► Interchanged, given, or owed to each other.

2. Circumnavigate

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

► Eating and drinking in moderation.

► Of the same or similar nature or kind

► To proceed completely around:

3. Ziggurat

► A temple tower of the ancient Assyrians and Babylonians, having the form of a terraced pyramid of successively receding stories.

► Not interesting; dull:

► The predominant influence, as of a state, region, or group, over another or others.

► A reproductive cell having the haploid number of chromosomes, especially a mature sperm or egg capable of fusing with a gamete of the opposite sex to produce the fertilized egg.

4. Tautology

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

► Needless repetition of the same sense in different words; redundancy.

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

► Division into ordered groups or categories.

5. Plasma

► Division into ordered groups or categories.

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

► Attended by favorable circumstances; propitious.

► The clear, yellowish fluid portion of blood, lymph, or intramuscular fluid in which cells are suspended.

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