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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 

ACCESS

DEFINITION:
The freedom or ability to obtain or make use of something.

FOUND IN THE NEWS:
Restrict access to out-of-state entities, like federal agencies, private entities, or other states, unless required by a court order or judicial warrant.
The Duluth News Tribune, 08/24/2026

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. Unctuous

Characterized by affected, exaggerated, or insincere earnestness.

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.

Noninterference in the affairs of others.

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


2. Enfranchise

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

Interchanged, given, or owed to each other.

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

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.


3. Suffragist

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

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.

The use of words to express something different from and often opposite to their literal meaning.

An advocate of the extension of political voting rights, especially to women.


4. Usurp

The process in cell division by which the nucleus divides.

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

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

The basic unit of currency among participating European Union countries.


5. Kowtow

The basic unit of currency among participating European Union countries.

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

Logical incongruity

To show servile deference.


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