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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 

ARID

DEFINITION:
Being without moisture; extremely dry; parched.

FOUND IN THE NEWS:
The unpredictability of illegal fireworks make them dangerous in the arid desert climate, said Riddle, who is also bureau commander of Metro’s Northeast Area Command.
The Las Vegas Review-Journal, 06/30/2025

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. Auspicious

To certify or attest to (the validity of a signature on a document, for example) as a notary public.

Not interesting; dull:

Attended by favorable circumstances; propitious.

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


2. Vortex

The art or study of correct spelling according to established usage.

To divide (a geographic area) into voting districts so as to give unfair advantage to one party in elections.

A place or situation regarded as drawing into its center all that surrounds it.

To increase the positive charge or valence of (an element) by removing electrons.


3. Nanotechnology

A dramatic or literary form of discourse in which a character talks to himself or herself or reveals his or her thoughts without addressing a listener.

Any of numerous natural and synthetic compounds consisting of up to millions of repeated linked units,

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

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


4. Photosynthesis

Having one’s true identity concealed.

The process in green plants and certain other organisms by which carbohydrates are synthesized from carbon dioxide and water using light as an energy source.

A plane curve formed by the intersection of a right circular cone and a plane parallel to an element of the cone.

Characterized by affected, exaggerated, or insincere earnestness.


5. Subjugate

To bring under control; conquer.

Not limited to or associated with a particular religious denomination.

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

Of the same or similar nature or kind


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