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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 

WRANGLING

DEFINITION:
Moving a person or thing somewhere, usually with difficulty or using force.

FOUND IN THE NEWS:
The location in Alexandria, Louisiana, would remove logistical headaches caused by wrangling children from foster homes and shelters across the country and not having anywhere to put them during final preparations for flight.
The Boston Herald, 07/13/2026

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. Orthography

Of, relating to, or produced by motion.

The art or study of correct spelling according to established usage.

Of the same or similar nature or kind

Not limited to or associated with a particular religious denomination.


2. Inculcate

Falling off or shed at a specific season or stage of growth:

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

Noninterference in the affairs of others.

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


3. Unctuous

Characterized by affected, exaggerated, or insincere earnestness.

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

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

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


4. Vortex

A place or situation regarded as drawing into its center all that surrounds it.

A plane curve formed by the intersection of a right circular cone and a plane parallel to an element of the cone.

A factor that determines a range of variations; a boundary

Very talkative; garrulous.


5. Auspicious

The act or process of inhaling and exhaling; breathing.

Attended by favorable circumstances; propitious.

A reproductive cell having the haploid number of chromosomes, especially a mature sperm or egg capable of fusing with a gamete of the opposite sex to produce the fertilized egg.

To weaken or destroy the strength or vitality of.


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