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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 

PLOY

DEFINITION:
A cunning plan or action designed to turn a situation to one's own advantage.

FOUND IN THE NEWS:
“First of all, I think it’s important to recognize that the majority of the American people find this behavior deeply troubling,” said the 44th president, conceding that it does serve as an effective distraction and ploy for attention.
The Boston Herald, 02/16/2026

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. Oligarchy

Interchanged, given, or owed to each other.

To seize another’s place, authority, or possession wrongfully.

The use of unnecessarily wordy and indirect language.

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


2. Totalitarian

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

Impossible to dispute; unquestionable

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

To remove erroneous, vulgar, obscene, or otherwise objectionable material from (a book, for example) before publication.


3. Orthography

The art or study of correct spelling according to established usage.

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

Playfully jocular; humorous

Warlike in manner or temperament; pugnacious.


4. Temblor

Shaking and vibration at the surface of the earth resulting from underground movement along a fault plane.

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.

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

The side of a right triangle opposite the right angle.


5. Kinetic

The side of a right triangle opposite the right angle.

To repeat in concise form. To make a summary.

Of, relating to, or produced by motion.

Characterized by affected, exaggerated, or insincere earnestness.


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