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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 

UNREDACTED

DEFINITION:
Confidential or sensitive information included or visible in a document, or with text or images not removed or hidden.

FOUND IN THE NEWS:
Sensitive personal information including Social Security numbers was unveiled in the newly unredacted John F. Kennedy assassination documents released this week, and that is not sitting well with the people affected.
►The Chicago Tribune, 03/24/2025

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. Hypotenuse

► Not interesting; dull:

► A temple tower of the ancient Assyrians and Babylonians, having the form of a terraced pyramid of successively receding stories.

► The side of a right triangle opposite the right angle.

► Warlike in manner or temperament; pugnacious.

2. Filibuster

► A product of disintegration, destruction, or wearing away; debris.

► A sudden manifestation of the essence or meaning of something.

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

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

3. Hemoglobin

► The iron-containing respiratory pigment in red blood cells of vertebrates.

► Quickness, accuracy, and keenness of judgment or insight.

► A part, portion, or share.

► Impossible to dispute; unquestionable

4. Hegemony

► The predominant influence, as of a state, region, or group, over another or others.

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

► The use of unnecessarily wordy and indirect language.

► 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.

5. Obsequious

► Full of or exhibiting servile compliance; fawning.

► A system of names used in an art or science:

► Overbearing pride or presumption; arrogance.

► To make an accusation against.

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