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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 

EXTINGUISH

DEFINITION:
To stop a fire or a light from burning. To bring to an end.

FOUND IN THE NEWS:
Fargo police responded and attempted to put the fire out before the Fargo Fire Department extinguished the fire.
►The Forum of Fargo-Moorhead, 08/31/2026

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. Contradiction

► Put together; created.

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

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

► Logical incongruity

2. Irony

► Of or relating to a holding of something in trust for another.

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

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

► Having one’s true identity concealed.

3. Bowdlerize

► Vanishing or likely to vanish like vapor.

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

► To modify, as by shortening or simplifying or by skewing the content in a certain manner.

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

4. Abstemious

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

► Eating and drinking in moderation.

► 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.

► To weaken or destroy the strength or vitality of.

5. Orthography

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

► The art or study of correct spelling according to established usage.

► Full of or exhibiting servile compliance; fawning.

► Government by a few, especially by a small faction of persons or families.

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