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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 

EXTINGUISH

DEFINITION:
To stop a fire or a light from burning. To bring to an end.

FOUND IN THE NEWS:
Fargo police responded and attempted to put the fire out before the Fargo Fire Department extinguished the fire.
The Forum of Fargo-Moorhead, 08/31/2026

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. waft

To make happy, cheer up.

To cause to float easily or gently through the air

The dividing line or location between two areas.

The power to affect, control or manipulate something or someone; the ability to change the development of fluctuating things such as conduct, thoughts or decisions.


2. abolish

The power to affect, control or manipulate something or someone; the ability to change the development of fluctuating things such as conduct, thoughts or decisions.

Assuming power or authority without justification; arrogant and domineering

Brief, concise, to the point.

Formally put an end to (a system, practice, or institution)


3. aptitude

Natural ability to acquire knowledge or skill.

To start (a fire) or light (a torch).

To waver or be unsteady.

To make something by merging parts.


4. uncanny

To make something by merging parts.

To sink or fall to the bottom; to settle

Strange or mysterious, esp. in an unsettling way

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.


5. knoll

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

The system of production and distribution and consumption.

An inadequate amount of something; a shortage

A small hill or mound.


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