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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. Winnow

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

► Interchanged, given, or owed to each other.

► The art or study of correct spelling according to established usage.

► Lacking serious purpose or occupation; idle.


2. Precipitous

► Lacking serious purpose or occupation; idle.

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

► Extremely rapid, hasty, or abrupt; precipitate.

► To picture falsely; misrepresent.


3. Metamorphosis

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

► Of, relating to, or produced by motion.

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

► Having a harmful effect; injurious.


4. Equinox

► 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.

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

► Deception by trickery or sophistry.

► Warlike in manner or temperament; pugnacious.


5. Nanotechnology

► To renounce under oath; forswear.

► The science and technology of building electronic circuits and devices from single atoms and molecules.

► Something done or paid to compensate or make amends.

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


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