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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 

HEIST

DEFINITION:
A robbery or burglary, especially from an institution such as a bank or museum.

FOUND IN THE NEWS:
Five suspects accused in connection with the heist were taken into custody late Wednesday, bringing the total arrest count to seven.
The Las Vegas Review-Journal, 11/03/2025

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. area

More than half (50%) of some group

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

Watchful, especially for danger or disorder; alert; wary

A particular geographic region.


2. circumference

The place set for the end of a journey, or to which something is sent; place or point aimed at.

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

A process by which a task is completed; a way of doing something.

The result or outcome of a cause.


3. gusto

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

The extent to which something matters; importance

Enthusiasm; enjoyment, vigor

The ability to foresee or prepare wisely for the future.


4. dispel

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

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

To make happy, cheer up.

To drive away by scattering, or so to cause to vanish.


5. minority

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.

In order of time from the earliest to the latest

The smaller number or part, esp. a number that is less than half the whole number

Doubt, apprehension, a feeling of dread


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