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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 

ENTICING

DEFINITION:
Arousing strong attraction or interest.

FOUND IN THE NEWS:
Meta makes enticing claims for Muse’s capabilities.
►The Los Angeles Times, 10/05/2026

Words in the News Quiz
5 Elementary 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. construct

► To build or form something by assembling parts.

► Unspoiled; still with its original purity; uncorrupted or unsullied

► Salty or slightly salty, as a mixture of fresh and sea water, such as that found in estuaries

► Anticipating something with anxiety or fear.


2. influence

► Offensive or repulsive; arousing disgust or aversion

► The power to affect, control or manipulate something or someone; the ability to change the development of fluctuating things such as conduct, thoughts or decisions.

► Examine methodically and in detail the constitution or structure of something, esp. information.

► An assemblage or display; a gathering, collection of people or things.


3. document

► An opponent or rival.

► A piece of written, printed, or electronic matter that provides information or evidence or that serves as an official record.

► The act of exasperating or the state of being exasperated; irritation; keen or bitter anger.

► To move or swing a weapon back and forth, particularly if demonstrating skill.


4. serenity

► The state of being serene; calmness; peacefulness.

► The extent to which something matters; importance

► Displeasing to the eye

► Disappointingly inadequate; gloomy and bleak.


5. barricade

► Allowing light to pass through but diffusing it

► A barrier constructed across a road, especially as a military defense.

► An individual instance that represents a class; an example.

► Scattered fragments, typically of something wrecked or destroyed


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