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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. Bellicose

► The clear, yellowish fluid portion of blood, lymph, or intramuscular fluid in which cells are suspended.

► The use of obstructionist tactics, especially prolonged speechmaking, for the purpose of delaying legislative action.

► Warlike in manner or temperament; pugnacious.

► A factor that determines a range of variations; a boundary

2. Deleterious

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

► The process in green plants and certain other organisms by which carbohydrates are synthesized from carbon dioxide and water using light as an energy source.

► Having a harmful effect; injurious.

► An underlying base or foundation especially for an organization or system.

3. Facetious

► Quickness, accuracy, and keenness of judgment or insight.

► Attended by favorable circumstances; propitious.

► Playfully jocular; humorous

► Not limited to or associated with a particular religious denomination.

4. Thermodynamics

► To abolish, do away with, or annul, especially by authority.

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

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

► Lacking serious purpose or occupation; idle.

5. Mitosis

► The process in cell division by which the nucleus divides.

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

► Either of two points on the celestial sphere at which the ecliptic intersects the celestial equator.

► Not interesting; dull:

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