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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

OVERZEALOUS
DEFINITION: Showing too much energy or enthusiasm in pursuit of a cause or objective.	FOUND IN THE NEWS: Patrolmen’s Association, the city’s largest police union, attributed the encounter to an “overzealous poll worker who was complaining to the officer that the councilor shouldn’t have even been inside.” ►The Boston Herald, 11/17/2025

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. Fiduciary

► A person unduly fearful or contemptuous of that which is foreign, especially of strangers or foreign peoples.

► The science and technology of building electronic circuits and devices from single atoms and molecules.

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

► To picture falsely; misrepresent.

2. Infrastructure

► Of the same or similar nature or kind

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

► An advocate of the extension of political voting rights, especially to women.

► Deception by trickery or sophistry.

3. Photosynthesis

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