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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 

DETECTION

DEFINITION:
The action or process of identifying the presence of something concealed.

FOUND IN THE NEWS:
He added that the district is also examining “various weapon detection systems on the market to see if any of them might be viable for us,” as well as state-of-the-art camera technology.
The Albuquerque Journal, 09/15/2025

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. Abstemious

The lowest point

Tumultuous; stormy.

Eating and drinking in moderation.

Lacking serious purpose or occupation; idle.


2. Auspicious

To picture falsely; misrepresent.

Characterized by affected, exaggerated, or insincere earnestness.

Not interesting; dull:

Attended by favorable circumstances; propitious.


3. Soliloquy

A part, portion, or share.

Needless repetition of the same sense in different words; redundancy.

A temple tower of the ancient Assyrians and Babylonians, having the form of a terraced pyramid of successively receding stories.

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. Oxidize

Of, relating to, or produced by motion.

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

To increase the positive charge or valence of (an element) by removing electrons.

Shaking and vibration at the surface of the earth resulting from underground movement along a fault plane.


5. Wrought

Full of or exhibiting servile compliance; fawning.

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.

Put together; created.

A factor that determines a range of variations; a boundary


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