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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 

ROOSTER TAIL

DEFINITION:
A high-arching spray (as of water, dust, or snow) thrown up behind a fast-moving motorboat, motor vehicle, or skier.

FOUND IN THE NEWS:
A second red flag was waved during the fifth race of the day when Rollin Transport got into a rooster tail on the turn of the first lap, resulting in the boat going onto its side before flipping.
►The Key West Citizen, 11/10/2025

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. Hubris

► Belonging to the period before a war, especially the American Civil War.

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

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

► Overbearing pride or presumption; arrogance.

2. Gauche

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

► Lacking social polish; tactless.

► The lowest point

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

3. Fiduciary

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

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

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

► Interchanged, given, or owed to each other.

4. Thermodynamics

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

► To show servile deference.

► Physics that deals with the relationships and conversions between heat and other forms of energy.

► Lacking or marked by a lack of self-confidence; shy and timid.

5. Inculcate

► Of, relating to, or produced by motion.

► Everyday; commonplace.

► To endow with the rights of citizenship, especially the right to vote.

► To impress (something) upon the mind of another by frequent instruction or repetition; instill.

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