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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 

ENTICING

DEFINITION:
Arousing strong attraction or interest.

FOUND IN THE NEWS:
Meta makes enticing claims for Muse’s capabilities.
►The Los Angeles Times, 10/05/2026

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. Metamorphosis

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

► Lacking purpose or vitality; feeble or ineffective.

► Everyday; commonplace.

► Tumultuous; stormy.


2. Incognito

► Having one’s true identity concealed.

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

► To remove erroneous, vulgar, obscene, or otherwise objectionable material from (a book, for example) before publication.

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


3. Tectonic

► To remove erroneous, vulgar, obscene, or otherwise objectionable material from (a book, for example) before publication.

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

► The basic unit of currency among participating European Union countries.

► Architectural.


4. Circumnavigate

► Eating and drinking in moderation.

► To proceed completely around:

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

► 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.


5. Filibuster

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

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

► Division into ordered groups or categories.

► Extremely rapid, hasty, or abrupt; precipitate.


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