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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 

RENDERING

DEFINITION:
Giving something to someone.

FOUND IN THE NEWS:
The replay booth has been working overtime in the Stanley Cup Final, and the officials charged with rendering the final verdicts probably won’t be getting any comped dinners in Las Vegas anytime soon.
►The Las Vegas Review-Journal, 06/08/2026

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. Xenophobe

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

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

► A form of government in which the political authority exercises absolute and centralized control over all aspects of life,

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

2. Kowtow

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

► Attended by favorable circumstances; propitious.

► To show servile deference.

► 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.

3. Feckless

► Put together; created.

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

► Lacking social polish; tactless.

► Lacking purpose or vitality; feeble or ineffective.

4. Evanescent

► A sudden manifestation of the essence or meaning of something.

► Everyday; commonplace.

► Vanishing or likely to vanish like vapor.

► Having one’s true identity concealed.

5. Oligarchy

► 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.

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

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

► Mournful, dismal, or gloomy, especially to an exaggerated or ludicrous degree.

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