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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 

ROIL

DEFINITION:
To disturb or disquiet; stir up; irritate; vex.

FOUND IN THE NEWS:
The Writers Guild of America and the major Hollywood studios are closing in on a deal that would end a 145-day strike that has roiled the film and TV business and caused thousands of job losses.
The Los Angeles Times, 09/25/2023

Words in the News Quiz
5 Elementary 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. Watchful, especially for danger or disorder; alert; wary

illuminate

vigilant

waver

interdependence


2. The energy and strength for continuing to do something over a long period of time ; power of sustained exertion, or resistance to hardship, illness etc.

minority

stamina

recluse

aplomb


3. Existing or occurring at the moment.

aplomb

majority

impact

current


4. Strange or mysterious, esp. in an unsettling way

meander

barricade

uncanny

monotonous


5. The line that bounds a circle or other two-dimensional figure.

circumference

adversary

waft

effect


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