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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. Antebellum

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

► A part, portion, or share.

► Quickness, accuracy, and keenness of judgment or insight.

► Attended by favorable circumstances; propitious.

2. Hubris

► Attended by favorable circumstances; propitious.

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

► Overbearing pride or presumption; arrogance.

► The lowest point

3. Gamete

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

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

► 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.

► Of the same or similar nature or kind

4. Mitosis

► To picture falsely; misrepresent.

► The process in cell division by which the nucleus divides.

► To certify or attest to (the validity of a signature on a document, for example) as a notary public.

► The basic unit of currency among participating European Union countries.

5. Equinox

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

► To separate or get rid of (an undesirable part); eliminate.

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

► To repeat in concise form. To make a summary.

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