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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 

ACQUAINTANCE

DEFINITION:
A person one knows slightly, but who is not a close friend.

FOUND IN THE NEWS:
When photographer Peter Turnley was just 20 years old, an acquaintance from the California Office of Economic Opportunity reached out to him with a question.
The Los Angeles Times, 12/01/2025

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. Evanescent

To modify, as by shortening or simplifying or by skewing the content in a certain manner.

Logical incongruity

Mournful, dismal, or gloomy, especially to an exaggerated or ludicrous degree.

Vanishing or likely to vanish like vapor.


2. Circumnavigate

To insert or introduce between other elements or parts.

Put together; created.

To proceed completely around:

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


3. Recapitulate

Division into ordered groups or categories.

The basic unit of currency among participating European Union countries.

To repeat in concise form. To make a summary.

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


4. Precipitous

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

Having a bad disposition; surly.

A place or situation regarded as drawing into its center all that surrounds it.

Extremely rapid, hasty, or abrupt; precipitate.


5. Infrastructure

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

An underlying base or foundation especially for an organization or system.

An advocate of the extension of political voting rights, especially to women.

The act or process of inhaling and exhaling; breathing.


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