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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 

ACCESS

DEFINITION:
The freedom or ability to obtain or make use of something.

FOUND IN THE NEWS:
Restrict access to out-of-state entities, like federal agencies, private entities, or other states, unless required by a court order or judicial warrant.
The Duluth News Tribune, 08/24/2026

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

Mitosis

Homogeneous

Temblor

Soliloquy


2. Impossible to dispute; unquestionable

Kowtow

Incontrovertible

Abrogate

Supercilious


3. Very talkative; garrulous.

Loquacious

Orthography

Laissez faire

Circumlocution


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

Taxonomy

Lugubrious

Tectonic

Nadir


5. To proceed completely around:

Hegemony

Circumnavigate

Acumen

Abjure


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