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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 

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DEFINITION:
An answer to a question or a reaction to something.

FOUND IN THE NEWS:
“And the response right away was ‘Sure!’”
The Reading Eagle, 09/07/2026

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. Bowdlerize

The basic unit of currency among participating European Union countries.

Lacking serious purpose or occupation; idle.

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

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


2. Reciprocal

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

Mournful, dismal, or gloomy, especially to an exaggerated or ludicrous degree.

A part, portion, or share.

Interchanged, given, or owed to each other.


3. Hubris

Overbearing pride or presumption; arrogance.

A doctrine holding that all values are baseless and that nothing can be known or communicated.

Everyday; commonplace.

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.


4. Nomenclature

Everyday; commonplace.

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.

To show servile deference.

A system of names used in an art or science:


5. Gauche

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

Logical incongruity

Lacking social polish; tactless.

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


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