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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 

PLOY

DEFINITION:
A cunning plan or action designed to turn a situation to one's own advantage.

FOUND IN THE NEWS:
“First of all, I think it’s important to recognize that the majority of the American people find this behavior deeply troubling,” said the 44th president, conceding that it does serve as an effective distraction and ploy for attention.
►The Boston Herald, 02/16/2026

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. Chromosome

► To seize another’s place, authority, or possession wrongfully.

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

► The use of obstructionist tactics, especially prolonged speechmaking, for the purpose of delaying legislative action.

► Lacking serious purpose or occupation; idle.

2. Respiration

► To picture falsely; misrepresent.

► The act or process of inhaling and exhaling; breathing.

► Cheerfully confident; optimistic.

► Attended by favorable circumstances; propitious.

3. Bellicose

► Attended by favorable circumstances; propitious.

► Something done or paid to compensate or make amends.

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

► Warlike in manner or temperament; pugnacious.

4. Interpolate

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

► To insert or introduce between other elements or parts.

► To increase the positive charge or valence of (an element) by removing electrons.

► A marked change in appearance, character, condition, or function.

5. Parabola

► Characterized by forcefulness of expression or intensity of emotion or conviction; fervid.

► 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.

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

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

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