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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 

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

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. Circumlocution

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

A sudden manifestation of the essence or meaning of something.

Lacking social polish; tactless.

The use of unnecessarily wordy and indirect language.


2. Xenophobe

Full of or exhibiting servile compliance; fawning.

Deception by trickery or sophistry.

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

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


3. Parabola

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

The process in cell division by which the nucleus divides.

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

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


4. Taxonomy

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

Division into ordered groups or categories.

To impress (something) upon the mind of another by frequent instruction or repetition; instill.

Warlike in manner or temperament; pugnacious.


5. Notarize

Having unlimited or universal power, authority, or force; all-powerful.

To certify or attest to (the validity of a signature on a document, for example) as a notary public.

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

Lacking serious purpose or occupation; idle.


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