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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 

INFLUENCER

DEFINITION:
Someone who uses their online reputation to prompt people to buy things.

FOUND IN THE NEWS:
“We have a lot of influencers who’ve come in and a lot of community members who have seen us through social media and come in and sell,” said Jessica Lucero, owner of In The Middle.
The Albuquerque Journal, 08/17/2026

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. Omnipotent

Noninterference in the affairs of others.

Lacking social polish; tactless.

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

A system of names used in an art or science:


2. Polymer

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

To renounce under oath; forswear.

A place or situation regarded as drawing into its center all that surrounds it.

An underlying base or foundation especially for an organization or system.


3. Quotidian

An underlying base or foundation especially for an organization or system.

The use of unnecessarily wordy and indirect language.

Everyday; commonplace.

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


4. Unctuous

To picture falsely; misrepresent.

Characterized by affected, exaggerated, or insincere earnestness.

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

To insert or introduce between other elements or parts.


5. Oligarchy

To weaken or destroy the strength or vitality of.

A person unduly fearful or contemptuous of that which is foreign, especially of strangers or foreign peoples.

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

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


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