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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

BOON
DEFINITION: A thing that is helpful or beneficial.	FOUND IN THE NEWS: A Miami World’s Fair would potentially result in a big tourism boon for the state and region, including the Florida Keys. ►The Key West Citizen, 01/26/2026

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. Nihilism

► Full of or exhibiting servile compliance; fawning.

► Of or relating to money

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

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

2. Precipitous

► The art or study of correct spelling according to established usage.

► Having one’s true identity concealed.

► 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.

► Extremely rapid, hasty, or abrupt; precipitate.

3. Respiration

► The act or process of inhaling and exhaling; breathing.