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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 

DISABILITY

DEFINITION:
A physical, mental, cognitive, or developmental condition that makes it more difficult for a person to do certain tasks or participate in daily activities.

FOUND IN THE NEWS:
The agreement last week between Disability-rights groups and Secretary of State Shirley Weber follows an Oct. 2 ruling by U.S. Magistrate Judge Sallie Kim of San Francisco that the current system violates the Americans with Disabilities Act and other laws.
►San Francisco Chronicle, 11/02/2026

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. Soliloquy

► A diligent, dependable worker.

► 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.

► Having unlimited or universal power, authority, or force; all-powerful.

► To endow with the rights of citizenship, especially the right to vote.

2. Vacuous

► To endow with the rights of citizenship, especially the right to vote.

► Not interesting; dull:

► An underlying base or foundation especially for an organization or system.

► Lacking serious purpose or occupation; idle.

3. Metamorphosis

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

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

► The use of unnecessarily wordy and indirect language.

► To picture falsely; misrepresent.

4. Respiration

► To picture falsely; misrepresent.

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

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

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

5. Homogeneous

► Vacuously, smugly, and unconsciously foolish.

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

► Warlike in manner or temperament; pugnacious.

► Of the same or similar nature or kind

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