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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. Incontrovertible

Impossible to dispute; unquestionable

Having one’s true identity concealed.

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

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


2. Gauche

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

Not interesting; dull:

Lacking social polish; tactless.

Deception by trickery or sophistry.


3. Precipitous

A diligent, dependable worker.

Warlike in manner or temperament; pugnacious.

Extremely rapid, hasty, or abrupt; precipitate.

The art or study of correct spelling according to established usage.


4. Quasar

Something done or paid to compensate or make amends.

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

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

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


5. Sanguine

Cheerfully confident; optimistic.

A sudden manifestation of the essence or meaning of something.

To seize another’s place, authority, or possession wrongfully.

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.


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