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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 

RECIPROCAL

DEFINITION:
Given, felt, or done in return. Reward the positive or punish the negative.

FOUND IN THE NEWS:
With the reciprocal tariffs, Trump is effectively blowing up the rules governing world trade.
The Albuquerque Journal, 07/14/2025

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. Abjure

To renounce under oath; forswear.

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.

Full of or exhibiting servile compliance; fawning.


2. Moiety

Full of or exhibiting servile compliance; fawning.

Deception by trickery or sophistry.

A part, portion, or share.

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


3. Homogeneous

To make an accusation against.

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

Put together; created.

Of the same or similar nature or kind


4. Loquacious

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

A doctrine holding that all values are baseless and that nothing can be known or communicated.

Very talkative; garrulous.

Of or relating to a holding of something in trust for another.


5. Usurp

To certify or attest to (the validity of a signature on a document, for example) as a notary public.

To seize another’s place, authority, or possession wrongfully.

Needless repetition of the same sense in different words; redundancy.

Attended by favorable circumstances; propitious.


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