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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 

ACCOST

DEFINITION:
To approach and speak to (someone) in an often challenging or aggressive way.

FOUND IN THE NEWS:
As their identities became more public, the operators were even accosted in their off hours.
The Anchorage Daily News, 09/21/2026

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. To move in a quick fashion.

hasten

boundary

headway

restitution


2. Make an idea, impression, or feeling known or understandable to someone.

debris

convey

influence

pristine


3. In order of time from the earliest to the latest

pristine

kindle

somber

chronological


4. To hear a conversation one is not intended to hear; to listen in.

scurry

apprehensive

eavesdrop

scarcity


5. To influence or alter.

misgivings

acquire

affect

falter


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