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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 

DISCERN

DEFINITION:
To see, recognize, or understand something that is not clear.

FOUND IN THE NEWS:
As you can discern, we have a rather complex group of vehicle violations that need to be cured.
►The Las Vegas Review-Journal, 10/26/2026

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. cunning

► Sly; crafty; clever in surreptitious behaviour.

► The act of inhabiting; state of inhabiting or dwelling, or of being inhabited; occupancy.

► The force or energy of a collision of two objects.

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


2. narrate

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

► Examine methodically and in detail the constitution or structure of something, esp. information.

► A form of acrobatic display which involves the dramatic bending and flexing of the human body.

► Something small enough to escape casual notice.


3. infer

► Deduce or conclude (information) from evidence and reasoning rather than from explicit statements

► A movement or series of moves requiring skill and care

► Progress toward a goal.

► To end, to come to an end.


4. circumference

► To end, to come to an end.

► To set fire to (something), to light (something)

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

► A measurement one can compare to.


5. vigilant

► Watchful, especially for danger or disorder; alert; wary

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

► The short term state of the atmosphere at a specific time and place, including the temperature, humidity, cloud cover, precipitation, wind, etc.

► A deliberate action aimed at weakening an enemy through subversion, obstruction, disruption, and/or destruction.


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