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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 

BILLIONAIRE

DEFINITION:
One whose wealth is estimated at a billion or more dollars, pounds, or other monetary units.

FOUND IN THE NEWS:
About a dozen people took part in the “March for billionaires” on Saturday morning in San Francisco to raise awareness about the plight of the ultrarich.
The Los Angeles Times, 02/09/2026

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. Taxonomy

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

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

Division into ordered groups or categories.

Lacking serious purpose or occupation; idle.


2. Incontrovertible

A part, portion, or share.

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

Impossible to dispute; unquestionable

A set of assumptions, concepts, values, and practices that constitutes a way of viewing reality


3. Gerrymander

Tumultuous; stormy.

To divide (a geographic area) into voting districts so as to give unfair advantage to one party in elections.

The lowest point

Of, relating to, or produced by motion.


4. Enervate

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

To weaken or destroy the strength or vitality of.

A form of government in which the political authority exercises absolute and centralized control over all aspects of life,

To bring under control; conquer.


5. Plasma

To bring under control; conquer.

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

The process in cell division by which the nucleus divides.

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


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