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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 

ACCOST

DEFINITION:
To approach and speak to (someone) in an often challenging or aggressive way.

FOUND IN THE NEWS:
As their identities became more public, the operators were even accosted in their off hours.
►The Anchorage Daily News, 09/21/2026

Words in the News Quiz
5 Elementary 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. engross

► A relationship of resemblance or equivalence between two situations, people, or objects,

► Examine methodically and in detail the constitution or structure of something, esp. information.

► Anything that assures a certain outcome.

► To completely engage the attention of.


2. aplomb

► Self-confidence; poise; composure.

► To cause to take physical form, or to cause an object to appear.

► To recover, especially from an illness; to get better from an illness.

► The person, place or thing from which something (information, goods, etc.) comes or is acquired.


3. various

► Obvious or easy to notice.

► Different from one another; of different kinds or sorts

► Hidden, secret

► To bring down the size, quantity, value or intensity of something; to diminish, to lower, to impair.


4. emerge

► The power to affect, control or manipulate something or someone; the ability to change the development of fluctuating things such as conduct, thoughts or decisions.

► A long flat-topped fixture in a store or bank across which business is conducted with customers.

► To come into view.

► A process by which a task is completed; a way of doing something.


5. area

► An assemblage or display; a gathering, collection of people or things.

► A particular geographic region.

► Firm or obstinate continuance in a course of action in spite of difficulty or opposition

► To overpower; to subdue; to put down.


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