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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. ominous

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

► Displeasing to the eye

► A piece of written, printed, or electronic matter that provides information or evidence or that serves as an official record.

► To cause to take physical form, or to cause an object to appear.


2. quell

► A piece of written, printed, or electronic matter that provides information or evidence or that serves as an official record.

► To cause to take physical form, or to cause an object to appear.

► Bizarre, strange

► To overpower; to subdue; to put down.


3. analogy

► A relationship of resemblance or equivalence between two situations, people, or objects,

► The fervor or tireless devotion for a person, cause, or ideal and determination in its furtherance; diligent enthusiasm; powerful interest.

► Hidden, secret

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


4. serenity

► The state of being serene; calmness; peacefulness.

► The ability to foresee or prepare wisely for the future.

► Allowing light to pass through but diffusing it

► To bump into or brush against while in motion.


5. impending

► A bold, or arrogant strut.

► Approaching; drawing near; about to happen

► To make sure or certain of something (usually some future event or condition).

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


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