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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

Feeling or showing haughty disdain.

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.

Division into ordered groups or categories.

Impossible to dispute; unquestionable


2. Nadir

The lowest point

The basic unit of currency among participating European Union countries.

Lacking purpose or vitality; feeble or ineffective.

Overbearing pride or presumption; arrogance.


3. Oligarchy

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

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

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

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


4. Tempestuous

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

Lacking serious purpose or occupation; idle.

Tumultuous; stormy.

To endow with the rights of citizenship, especially the right to vote.


5. Tautology

Clear to the understanding.

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

Belonging to the period before a war, especially the American Civil War.

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


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