Words in the News

This Week's Word In The News 

FACT-CHECKING

DEFINITION:
To check that all the facts in a piece of writing, a news article, a speech, etc. are correct.

FOUND IN THE NEWS:
He criticized the moderators for fact-checking him and said they did not fact-check Harris.
Las Vegas Review-Journal, 09/16/2024

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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. Put together; created.

Wrought

Taxonomy

Deleterious

Temblor


2. Of, relating to, or produced by motion.

Deleterious

Temblor

Auspicious

Kinetic


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

Oxidize

Totalitarian

Deciduous

Hypotenuse


4. To modify, as by shortening or simplifying or by skewing the content in a certain manner.

Bowdlerize

Facetious

Abrogate

Feckless


5. Interchanged, given, or owed to each other.

Detritus

Reciprocal

Inculcate

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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.