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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 

RECIPROCAL

DEFINITION:
Given, felt, or done in return. Reward the positive or punish the negative.

FOUND IN THE NEWS:
With the reciprocal tariffs, Trump is effectively blowing up the rules governing world trade.
The Albuquerque Journal, 07/14/2025

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. Tectonic

To divide (a geographic area) into voting districts so as to give unfair advantage to one party in elections.

Characterized by affected, exaggerated, or insincere earnestness.

Architectural.

The basic unit of currency among participating European Union countries.


2. Yeoman

The side of a right triangle opposite the right angle.

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

A diligent, dependable worker.

The process in green plants and certain other organisms by which carbohydrates are synthesized from carbon dioxide and water using light as an energy source.


3. Quasar

Everyday; commonplace.

An extremely distant, and thus old, celestial object whose power output is several thousand times that of our entire galaxy.

To proceed completely around:

The lowest point


4. Circumlocution

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

Of the same or similar nature or kind

The use of unnecessarily wordy and indirect language.

Of or relating to money


5. Enfranchise

To increase the positive charge or valence of (an element) by removing electrons.

Something done or paid to compensate or make amends.

Having unlimited or universal power, authority, or force; all-powerful.

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


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