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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 

UNREDACTED

DEFINITION:
Confidential or sensitive information included or visible in a document, or with text or images not removed or hidden.

FOUND IN THE NEWS:
Sensitive personal information including Social Security numbers was unveiled in the newly unredacted John F. Kennedy assassination documents released this week, and that is not sitting well with the people affected.
The Chicago Tribune, 03/24/2025

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. Diffident

Vanishing or likely to vanish like vapor.

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

Something done or paid to compensate or make amends.

Lacking or marked by a lack of self-confidence; shy and timid.


2. Fatuous

The basic unit of currency among participating European Union countries.

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

Vacuously, smugly, and unconsciously foolish.

To impress (something) upon the mind of another by frequent instruction or repetition; instill.


3. Incognito

To show servile deference.

A person unduly fearful or contemptuous of that which is foreign, especially of strangers or foreign peoples.

Having one’s true identity concealed.

An extremely distant, and thus old, celestial object whose power output is several thousand times that of our entire galaxy.


4. Lexicon

A stock of terms used in a particular profession, subject, or style; a vocabulary:

A set of assumptions, concepts, values, and practices that constitutes a way of viewing reality

Having a harmful effect; injurious.

To insert or introduce between other elements or parts.


5. Homogeneous

To insert or introduce between other elements or parts.

A diligent, dependable worker.

Of the same or similar nature or kind

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.


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