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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 

PARLAY

DEFINITION:
A single bet that links together two or more individual wagers

FOUND IN THE NEWS:
Then comes the parlay attempt.
The Key West Citizen, 01/05/2026

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. Subjugate

A system of names used in an art or science:

To make an accusation against.

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

To bring under control; conquer.


2. Taxonomy

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

Division into ordered groups or categories.

Attended by favorable circumstances; propitious.

An advocate of the extension of political voting rights, especially to women.


3. Kinetic

The process in green plants and certain other organisms by which carbohydrates are synthesized from carbon dioxide and water using light as an energy source.

Of, relating to, or produced by motion.

Extremely rapid, hasty, or abrupt; precipitate.

Having one’s true identity concealed.


4. Irony

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.

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

Either of two points on the celestial sphere at which the ecliptic intersects the celestial equator.

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


5. Facetious

Playfully jocular; humorous

A part, portion, or share.

To separate or get rid of (an undesirable part); eliminate.

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


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