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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. Quotidian

Playfully jocular; humorous

Characterized by affected, exaggerated, or insincere earnestness.

Everyday; commonplace.

Logical incongruity


2. Tautology

The iron-containing respiratory pigment in red blood cells of vertebrates.

The science and technology of building electronic circuits and devices from single atoms and molecules.

Something done or paid to compensate or make amends.

Needless repetition of the same sense in different words; redundancy.


3. Nomenclature

The basic unit of currency among participating European Union countries.

Full of or exhibiting servile compliance; fawning.

A system of names used in an art or science:

Deception by trickery or sophistry.


4. Circumlocution

Having one’s true identity concealed.

To renounce under oath; forswear.

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

The use of unnecessarily wordy and indirect language.


5. Totalitarian

Having a harmful effect; injurious.

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

To picture falsely; misrepresent.

The use of obstructionist tactics, especially prolonged speechmaking, for the purpose of delaying legislative action.


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