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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 

ACCESS

DEFINITION:
The freedom or ability to obtain or make use of something.

FOUND IN THE NEWS:
Restrict access to out-of-state entities, like federal agencies, private entities, or other states, unless required by a court order or judicial warrant.
The Duluth News Tribune, 08/24/2026

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. Quotidian

Everyday; commonplace.

Eating and drinking in moderation.

To impress (something) upon the mind of another by frequent instruction or repetition; instill.

Extremely rapid, hasty, or abrupt; precipitate.


2. Chromosome

Extremely rapid, hasty, or abrupt; precipitate.

The basic unit of currency among participating European Union countries.

A circular strand of DNA in bacteria that contains the hereditary information necessary for cell life.

Having a bad disposition; surly.


3. Enervate

A dramatic or literary form of discourse in which a character talks to himself or herself or reveals his or her thoughts without addressing a listener.

To weaken or destroy the strength or vitality of.

Logical incongruity

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


4. Notarize

Deception by trickery or sophistry.

A sudden manifestation of the essence or meaning of something.

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

Lacking or marked by a lack of self-confidence; shy and timid.


5. Gamete

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 temple tower of the ancient Assyrians and Babylonians, having the form of a terraced pyramid of successively receding stories.

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

To picture falsely; misrepresent.


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