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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 

BACKLOT

DEFINITION:
An area behind or adjoining a movie studio containing permanent exterior buildings for outdoor scenes in filmmaking or television productions.

FOUND IN THE NEWS:
Los Angeles City Councilmember Nithya Raman, who serves the 4th District, makes her way across an empty, unnamed backlot, presenting her case to be the city’s next mayor.
►The Los Angeles Times, 05/18/2026

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. Wrought

► Put together; created.

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

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

► To divide (a geographic area) into voting districts so as to give unfair advantage to one party in elections.

2. Paradigm

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

► To divide (a geographic area) into voting districts so as to give unfair advantage to one party in elections.

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

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

3. Nomenclature

► Having a bad disposition; surly.

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

► 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.

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

4. Chicanery

► To weaken or destroy the strength or vitality of.

► Impossible to dispute; unquestionable

► Deception by trickery or sophistry.

► To make an accusation against.

5. Taxonomy

► Full of or exhibiting servile compliance; fawning.

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

► Division into ordered groups or categories.

► Quickness, accuracy, and keenness of judgment or insight.

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