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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 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. conspicuous

Exceptional, conspicuous, outstanding, most usually in a negative fashion.

Paying attention; noticing, watching, listening, or attending closely.

Obvious or easy to notice.

Salty or slightly salty, as a mixture of fresh and sea water, such as that found in estuaries


2. versatile

Capable of doing many things competently

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

To stick out

Dark or dreary in character; joyless, and grim.


3. apprehensive

Anticipating something with anxiety or fear.

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

More than half (50%) of some group

Tending to socialize or be social; friendly; inviting; congenial.


4. counter

A small hill or mound.

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

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

A measurement one can compare to.


5. scarcity

To make something by merging parts.

An inadequate amount of something; a shortage

Having an unvarying tone or pitch

Assuming power or authority without justification; arrogant and domineering


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