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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 

INFLUENCER

DEFINITION:
Someone who uses their online reputation to prompt people to buy things.

FOUND IN THE NEWS:
“We have a lot of influencers who’ve come in and a lot of community members who have seen us through social media and come in and sell,” said Jessica Lucero, owner of In The Middle.
The Albuquerque Journal, 08/17/2026

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. Kinetic

Of, relating to, or produced by motion.

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

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

The lowest point


2. Polymer

To show servile deference.

Any of numerous natural and synthetic compounds consisting of up to millions of repeated linked units,

A stock of terms used in a particular profession, subject, or style; a vocabulary:

Belonging to the period before a war, especially the American Civil War.


3. Evanescent

Belonging to the period before a war, especially the American Civil War.

A system of names used in an art or science:

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

Vanishing or likely to vanish like vapor.


4. Hemoglobin

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

Impossible to dispute; unquestionable

To make an accusation against.

To proceed completely around:


5. Quasar

Noninterference in the affairs of others.

An extremely distant, and thus old, celestial object whose power output is several thousand times that of our entire galaxy.

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

Architectural.


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