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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 

EXTINGUISH

DEFINITION:
To stop a fire or a light from burning. To bring to an end.

FOUND IN THE NEWS:
Fargo police responded and attempted to put the fire out before the Fargo Fire Department extinguished the fire.
The Forum of Fargo-Moorhead, 08/31/2026

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. Full of or exhibiting servile compliance; fawning.

Chicanery

Obsequious

Inculcate

Winnow


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

Hubris

Lugubrious

Feckless

Bellicose


3. Lacking serious purpose or occupation; idle.

Reparation

Vacuous

Hypotenuse

Diffident


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

Oligarchy

Paradigm

Metamorphosis

Pecuniary


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

Pecuniary

Lucid

Hegemony

Suffragist


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