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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 

INBOUND

DEFINITION:
Travelling towards a particular point or place rather than leaving it.

FOUND IN THE NEWS:
The runway was closed and inbound and outbound traffic was delayed for a few hours.
The Key West Citizen, 06/22/2026

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. To proceed completely around:

Vortex

Circumnavigate

Incognito

Gerrymander


2. Lacking serious purpose or occupation; idle.

Gerrymander

Nadir

Wrought

Vacuous


3. A circular strand of DNA in bacteria that contains the hereditary information necessary for cell life.

Oligarchy

Ziggurat

Detritus

Chromosome


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

Nonsectarian

Enfranchise

Omnipotent

Enervate


5. To remove erroneous, vulgar, obscene, or otherwise objectionable material from (a book, for example) before publication.

Lucid

Facetious

Interpolate

Expurgate


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