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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. Lexicon

Noninterference in the affairs of others.

Characterized by forcefulness of expression or intensity of emotion or conviction; fervid.

A stock of terms used in a particular profession, subject, or style; a vocabulary:

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.


2. Gauche

Not interesting; dull:

Interchanged, given, or owed to each other.

Lacking social polish; tactless.

To bring under control; conquer.


3. Irony

To proceed completely around:

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

To make an accusation against.

Overbearing pride or presumption; arrogance.


4. Respiration

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

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.

The act or process of inhaling and exhaling; breathing.

A part, portion, or share.


5. Parabola

A set of assumptions, concepts, values, and practices that constitutes a way of viewing reality

A system of names used in an art or science:

A plane curve formed by the intersection of a right circular cone and a plane parallel to an element of the cone.

Of or relating to a holding of something in trust for another.


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