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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 

SIMLUATED

DEFINITION:
Made to look like or have the features of something else.

FOUND IN THE NEWS:
Here’s the full simluated injury report:
The Boston Herald, 02/02/2026

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. Wrought

Characterized by forcefulness of expression or intensity of emotion or conviction; fervid.

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

Put together; created.

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


2. Contradiction

To insert or introduce between other elements or parts.

Overbearing pride or presumption; arrogance.

Logical incongruity

A system of names used in an art or science:


3. Epiphany

A sudden manifestation of the essence or meaning of something.

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

A place or situation regarded as drawing into its center all that surrounds it.

Attended by favorable circumstances; propitious.


4. Equinox

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

A circular strand of DNA in bacteria that contains the hereditary information necessary for cell life.

A plane curve formed by the intersection of a right circular cone and a plane parallel to an element of the cone.

To proceed completely around:


5. Vacuous

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

Lacking serious purpose or occupation; idle.

Falling off or shed at a specific season or stage of growth:

Everyday; commonplace.


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