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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 

PROACTIVE

DEFINITION:
Taking action to control a situation rather than responding to it after it has happened.

FOUND IN THE NEWS:
LoPilato said the policy aims to be proactive, rather than allowing more violence to take place before regulating the problem.
►The Los Angeles Times, 07/20/2026

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. Enervate

► Of the same or similar nature or kind

► To weaken or destroy the strength or vitality of.

► To divide (a geographic area) into voting districts so as to give unfair advantage to one party in elections.

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

2. Moiety

► To abolish, do away with, or annul, especially by authority.

► To picture falsely; misrepresent.

► A part, portion, or share.

► Very talkative; garrulous.

3. Expurgate

► Physics that deals with the relationships and conversions between heat and other forms of energy.

► A sudden manifestation of the essence or meaning of something.

► To remove erroneous, vulgar, obscene, or otherwise objectionable material from (a book, for example) before publication.

► Lacking serious purpose or occupation; idle.

4. Antebellum

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

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

► Full of or exhibiting servile compliance; fawning.

► Quickness, accuracy, and keenness of judgment or insight.

5. Kinetic

► Of, relating to, or produced by motion.

► A stock of terms used in a particular profession, subject, or style; a vocabulary:

► 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 bring under control; conquer.

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