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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 phase important to comprehension or expression. Students are then asked to find the words within the newspaper and copy the sentence for context to it's overall meaning or function in a sentence.

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. Plasma

► Everyday; commonplace.

► To endow with the rights of citizenship, especially the right to vote.

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

► A factor that determines a range of variations; a boundary

2. Soliloquy

► The science and technology of building electronic circuits and devices from single atoms and molecules.

► 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.

► Vanishing or likely to vanish like vapor.

► Of the same or similar nature or kind

3. Impeach

► A part, portion, or share.