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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 

LANGUISH

DEFINITION:
Existing in an unpleasant or unwanted situation, often for a long time:

FOUND IN THE NEWS:
President Biden’s aid request has languished for as long as Johnson has been speaker.
The Los Angeles Times, 03/18/2024

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

Thermodynamics

Abjure

Supercilious

Acumen


2. Lacking purpose or vitality; feeble or ineffective.

Acumen

Hegemony

Feckless

Filibuster


3. Any of numerous natural and synthetic compounds consisting of up to millions of repeated linked units,

Deleterious

Totalitarian

Gerrymander

Polymer


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

Hemoglobin

Winnow

Gauche

Jejune


5. Extremely rapid, hasty, or abrupt; precipitate.

Abstemious

Precipitous

Fatuous

Contradiction


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