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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 

ANTAGONIZING

DEFINITION:
Causing someone to become hostile or angry,

FOUND IN THE NEWS:
"We’ve received reports of police antagonizing protesters, too, so we’re looking into that."
The Las Vegas Review-Journal, 06/16/2025

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. Polymer

To show servile deference.

Impossible to dispute; unquestionable

Any of numerous natural and synthetic compounds consisting of up to millions of repeated linked units,

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


2. Nadir

Deception by trickery or sophistry.

The lowest point

The predominant influence, as of a state, region, or group, over another or others.

Logical incongruity


3. Lugubrious

A person unduly fearful or contemptuous of that which is foreign, especially of strangers or foreign peoples.

Mournful, dismal, or gloomy, especially to an exaggerated or ludicrous degree.

Quickness, accuracy, and keenness of judgment or insight.

To weaken or destroy the strength or vitality of.


4. Detritus

The process in cell division by which the nucleus divides.

A product of disintegration, destruction, or wearing away; debris.

The iron-containing respiratory pigment in red blood cells of vertebrates.

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


5. Tempestuous

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

The basic unit of currency among participating European Union countries.

Tumultuous; stormy.

The use of unnecessarily wordy and indirect language.


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