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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 

WRANGLING

DEFINITION:
Moving a person or thing somewhere, usually with difficulty or using force.

FOUND IN THE NEWS:
The location in Alexandria, Louisiana, would remove logistical headaches caused by wrangling children from foster homes and shelters across the country and not having anywhere to put them during final preparations for flight.
The Boston Herald, 07/13/2026

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. Reparation

Extremely rapid, hasty, or abrupt; precipitate.

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

An advocate of the extension of political voting rights, especially to women.

Something done or paid to compensate or make amends.


2. Incognito

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

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

Feeling or showing haughty disdain.

Having one’s true identity concealed.


3. Contradiction

Logical incongruity

Characterized by affected, exaggerated, or insincere earnestness.

The process in cell division by which the nucleus divides.

Tumultuous; stormy.


4. Infrastructure

Tumultuous; stormy.

Cheerfully confident; optimistic.

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

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


5. Obsequious

Full of or exhibiting servile compliance; fawning.

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

Of or relating to money

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


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