Words in the News

This Week's Word In The News 

RENDERING

DEFINITION:
Giving something to someone.

FOUND IN THE NEWS:
The replay booth has been working overtime in the Stanley Cup Final, and the officials charged with rendering the final verdicts probably won’t be getting any comped dinners in Las Vegas anytime soon.
►The Las Vegas Review-Journal, 06/08/2026

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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. Antebellum

► To repeat in concise form. To make a summary.

► Very talkative; garrulous.

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

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

2. Obsequious

► Eating and drinking in moderation.

► Full of or exhibiting servile compliance; fawning.

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

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

3. Usurp

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

► The science and technology of building electronic circuits and devices from single atoms and molecules.

► Everyday; commonplace.

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

4. Parabola

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

► Having a harmful effect; injurious.

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

► Interchanged, given, or owed to each other.

5. Circumnavigate

► To proceed completely around:

► To bring under control; conquer.

► Shaking and vibration at the surface of the earth resulting from underground movement along a fault plane.

► A system of names used in an art or science:

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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.