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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 

BACKLOT

DEFINITION:
An area behind or adjoining a movie studio containing permanent exterior buildings for outdoor scenes in filmmaking or television productions.

FOUND IN THE NEWS:
Los Angeles City Councilmember Nithya Raman, who serves the 4th District, makes her way across an empty, unnamed backlot, presenting her case to be the city’s next mayor.
►The Los Angeles Times, 05/18/2026

Words in the News Quiz
5 Elementary 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. sociable

► The quality (positive or negative) that renders something desirable or valuable

► Tending to socialize or be social; friendly; inviting; congenial.

► To send someone away and forbid that person from returning.

► Important with regards to (a subject or matter); relevant

2. affect

► Brief, concise, to the point.

► To influence or alter.

► A pleasant smell or odour.

► The throwing back by a body or surface of light, heat, or sound without absorbing it

3. translucent

► The throwing back by a body or surface of light, heat, or sound without absorbing it

► An individual step, or stage, in any process or scale of values.

► To cause to take physical form, or to cause an object to appear.

► Allowing light to pass through but diffusing it

4. headway

► Assuming power or authority without justification; arrogant and domineering

► Progress toward a goal.

► One of the simplest or essential parts or principles of which anything consists, or upon which the constitution or fundamental powers of anything are based.

► To notice or view, especially carefully or with attention to detail.

5. ember

► A glowing piece of coal or wood.

► To bump into or brush against while in motion.

► Unspoiled; still with its original purity; uncorrupted or unsullied

► To hear a conversation one is not intended to hear; to listen in.

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