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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 

VERTEBRAE

DEFINITION:
Each of the series of small bones forming the backbone.

FOUND IN THE NEWS:
The photographer with The Washington Post who was attacked by Jewish settlers in the occupied West Bank so badly that several vertebrae were broken said Sunday she was increasingly angry that Israel’s military seems to protect settlers more than the Palestinians they threaten.
►Associated Press, 10/19/2026

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. stamina

► Enthusiasm; enjoyment, vigor

► The energy and strength for continuing to do something over a long period of time ; power of sustained exertion, or resistance to hardship, illness etc.

► To drive away by scattering, or so to cause to vanish.

► To bump into or brush against while in motion.

2. reflection

► The ability to foresee or prepare wisely for the future.

► To end, to come to an end.

► The throwing back by a body or surface of light, heat, or sound without absorbing it

► To cause to take physical form, or to cause an object to appear.

3. egregious

► To make happy, cheer up.

► The rate of occurrence of anything; the relationship between incidence and time period.

► Exceptional, conspicuous, outstanding, most usually in a negative fashion.

► An individual step, or stage, in any process or scale of values.

4. reference

► An inadequate amount of something; a shortage

► A measurement one can compare to.

► So difficult or taxing as to make one exhausted; backbreaking.

► To overpower; to subdue; to put down.

5. concoction

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

► A process by which a task is completed; a way of doing something.

► A mixture of various ingredients or elements.

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

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