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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. Lugubrious

Warlike in manner or temperament; pugnacious.

Mournful, dismal, or gloomy, especially to an exaggerated or ludicrous degree.

The use of words to express something different from and often opposite to their literal meaning.

Cheerfully confident; optimistic.


2. Ziggurat

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

An extremely distant, and thus old, celestial object whose power output is several thousand times that of our entire galaxy.

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

Having a bad disposition; surly.


3. Oxidize

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

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

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

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


4. Photosynthesis

Interchanged, given, or owed to each other.

Quickness, accuracy, and keenness of judgment or insight.

The process in green plants and certain other organisms by which carbohydrates are synthesized from carbon dioxide and water using light as an energy source.

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


5. Gerrymander

To divide (a geographic area) into voting districts so as to give unfair advantage to one party in elections.

Of the same or similar nature or kind

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.

To make an accusation against.


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