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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 

ROLLICKING

DEFINITION:
Carefree and high-spirited; boisterous.

FOUND IN THE NEWS:
On a rollicking Sunday night at Dodger Stadium, the Dodgers silenced the critics, embraced their birthright and returned to their personal promised land with a 10-5 victory over the New York Mets that gave them a four-games-to-two triumph in the National League Championship Series.
The Los Angeles Times, 10/21/2024

Words in the News Quiz
5 High School 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. Incontrovertible

Lacking serious purpose or occupation; idle.

Impossible to dispute; unquestionable

The science and technology of building electronic circuits and devices from single atoms and molecules.

To bring under control; conquer.


2. Yeoman

The iron-containing respiratory pigment in red blood cells of vertebrates.

A diligent, dependable worker.

The clear, yellowish fluid portion of blood, lymph, or intramuscular fluid in which cells are suspended.

A temple tower of the ancient Assyrians and Babylonians, having the form of a terraced pyramid of successively receding stories.


3. Tectonic

To impress (something) upon the mind of another by frequent instruction or repetition; instill.

Full of or exhibiting servile compliance; fawning.

Architectural.

Deception by trickery or sophistry.


4. Supercilious

To remove erroneous, vulgar, obscene, or otherwise objectionable material from (a book, for example) before publication.

To abolish, do away with, or annul, especially by authority.

A stock of terms used in a particular profession, subject, or style; a vocabulary:

Feeling or showing haughty disdain.


5. Hegemony

A doctrine holding that all values are baseless and that nothing can be known or communicated.

The use of words to express something different from and often opposite to their literal meaning.

The predominant influence, as of a state, region, or group, over another or others.

Not limited to or associated with a particular religious denomination.


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