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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 

BREACH

DEFINITION:
An act of breaking or failing to observe a law, agreement, or code of conduct.

FOUND IN THE NEWS:
The Cockroach Janata Party’s three leaders — Abhijeet Dipke, Saurav Das and Ashutosh Ranka — were freed on condition that they commit “no breach of peace for one year,” Ratna Singh, the movement’s legal director, said in a social media post.
►Associated Press, 10/12/2026

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. Infrastructure

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

► To bring under control; conquer.

► An underlying base or foundation especially for an organization or system.

► 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.

2. Tempestuous

► Cheerfully confident; optimistic.

► Lacking or marked by a lack of self-confidence; shy and timid.

► Lacking serious purpose or occupation; idle.

► Tumultuous; stormy.

3. Churlish

► Eating and drinking in moderation.

► Having a bad disposition; surly.

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

► The process in cell division by which the nucleus divides.

4. Facetious

► To proceed completely around:

► Playfully jocular; humorous

► 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.

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

5. Chromosome

► A circular strand of DNA in bacteria that contains the hereditary information necessary for cell life.

► Interchanged, given, or owed to each other.

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

► Characterized by affected, exaggerated, or insincere earnestness.

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