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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 

BILLIONAIRE

DEFINITION:
One whose wealth is estimated at a billion or more dollars, pounds, or other monetary units.

FOUND IN THE NEWS:
About a dozen people took part in the “March for billionaires” on Saturday morning in San Francisco to raise awareness about the plight of the ultrarich.
The Los Angeles Times, 02/09/2026

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. Vehement

Of the same or similar nature or kind

To separate or get rid of (an undesirable part); eliminate.

Characterized by forcefulness of expression or intensity of emotion or conviction; fervid.

Having a harmful effect; injurious.


2. Unctuous

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

To repeat in concise form. To make a summary.

Characterized by affected, exaggerated, or insincere earnestness.

Physics that deals with the relationships and conversions between heat and other forms of energy.


3. Oxidize

A factor that determines a range of variations; a boundary

Lacking social polish; tactless.

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

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


4. Mitosis

The process in cell division by which the nucleus divides.

Very talkative; garrulous.

Playfully jocular; humorous

Vacuously, smugly, and unconsciously foolish.


5. Euro

Belonging to the period before a war, especially the American Civil War.

The basic unit of currency among participating European Union countries.

A marked change in appearance, character, condition, or function.

A temple tower of the ancient Assyrians and Babylonians, having the form of a terraced pyramid of successively receding stories.


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