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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. commotion

Disappointingly inadequate; gloomy and bleak.

A state of confused and noisy disturbance

A bold, or arrogant strut.

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


2. banish

To end, to come to an end.

To overpower; to subdue; to put down.

To send someone away and forbid that person from returning.

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


3. minority

A barrier constructed across a road, especially as a military defense.

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

The throwing back by a body or surface of light, heat, or sound without absorbing it

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


4. meander

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

To follow a winding course

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

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


5. acquire

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

Natural ability to acquire knowledge or skill.

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

To gain, usually by one's own exertions; to get as one's own.


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