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This Week's Word In The News 

RENDERING

DEFINITION:
Giving something to someone.

FOUND IN THE NEWS:
The replay booth has been working overtime in the Stanley Cup Final, and the officials charged with rendering the final verdicts probably won’t be getting any comped dinners in Las Vegas anytime soon.
The Las Vegas Review-Journal, 06/08/2026

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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

Attended by favorable circumstances; propitious.

Impossible to dispute; unquestionable

Full of or exhibiting servile compliance; fawning.

Any of numerous natural and synthetic compounds consisting of up to millions of repeated linked units,


2. Homogeneous

Lacking or marked by a lack of self-confidence; shy and timid.

Of the same or similar nature or kind

The clear, yellowish fluid portion of blood, lymph, or intramuscular fluid in which cells are suspended.

The use of words to express something different from and often opposite to their literal meaning.


3. Hubris

A reproductive cell having the haploid number of chromosomes, especially a mature sperm or egg capable of fusing with a gamete of the opposite sex to produce the fertilized egg.

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

Overbearing pride or presumption; arrogance.

To impress (something) upon the mind of another by frequent instruction or repetition; instill.


4. Bellicose

Warlike in manner or temperament; pugnacious.

Falling off or shed at a specific season or stage of growth:

A factor that determines a range of variations; a boundary

The basic unit of currency among participating European Union countries.


5. Temblor

To bring under control; conquer.

Shaking and vibration at the surface of the earth resulting from underground movement along a fault plane.

A dramatic or literary form of discourse in which a character talks to himself or herself or reveals his or her thoughts without addressing a listener.

Clear to the understanding.


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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.