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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 

ARID

DEFINITION:
Being without moisture; extremely dry; parched.

FOUND IN THE NEWS:
The unpredictability of illegal fireworks make them dangerous in the arid desert climate, said Riddle, who is also bureau commander of Metro’s Northeast Area Command.
The Las Vegas Review-Journal, 06/30/2025

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. clarify

To make clear; to free from obscurities; to brighten or illuminate.

To recover, especially from an illness; to get better from an illness.

To relate a story or series of events by speech or writing.

Specifically, giving indication of a coming ill; being an evil omen


2. replenish

Specifically, giving indication of a coming ill; being an evil omen

Important with regards to (a subject or matter); relevant

To refill; to renew; to supply again or to add a fresh quantity.

Connection or association; the condition of being related.


3. chronological

In order of time from the earliest to the latest

A long flat-topped fixture in a store or bank across which business is conducted with customers.

Representation of a concept through symbols or underlying meanings of objects or qualities.

The throwing back by a body or surface of light, heat, or sound without absorbing it


4. reduce

The throwing back by a body or surface of light, heat, or sound without absorbing it

Approaching; drawing near; about to happen

To bring down the size, quantity, value or intensity of something; to diminish, to lower, to impair.

To sink or fall to the bottom; to settle


5. furtive

A thing that is granted, esp. in response to demands.

Exhibiting guilty or evasive secrecy.

An individual step, or stage, in any process or scale of values.

Strange or mysterious, esp. in an unsettling way


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