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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 

BOON

DEFINITION:
A thing that is helpful or beneficial.

FOUND IN THE NEWS:
A Miami World’s Fair would potentially result in a big tourism boon for the state and region, including the Florida Keys.
►The Key West Citizen, 01/26/2026

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. Gauche

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

► Lacking social polish; tactless.

► A person unduly fearful or contemptuous of that which is foreign, especially of strangers or foreign peoples.

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

2. Detritus

► A product of disintegration, destruction, or wearing away; debris.

► Vanishing or likely to vanish like vapor.

► To impress (something) upon the mind of another by frequent instruction or repetition; instill.

► To insert or introduce between other elements or parts.

3. Parameter

► Architectural.

► A factor that determines a range of variations; a boundary

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

► 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.

4. Hypotenuse

► The side of a right triangle opposite the right angle.

► To show servile deference.

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

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

5. Quasar

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

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

► Deception by trickery or sophistry.

► Not limited to or associated with a particular religious denomination.

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