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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 

PIGMENT

DEFINITION:
A substance that imparts black, white, or a color to other materials.

FOUND IN THE NEWS:
Pea-soup green pigment floated where the water met the shore on Eagle Nest Lake on Tuesday, while bright, turquoise pigment stained the south boat ramp.
The Albuquerque Journal, 10/27/2025

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. minority

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

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.

A movement or series of moves requiring skill and care


2. establish

A movement or series of moves requiring skill and care

The brink of a dangerous situation.

To make stable or firm; to confirm.

The state of being serene; calmness; peacefulness.


3. diminish

To make smaller.

Approaching; drawing near; about to happen

A glowing piece of coal or wood.

To send someone away and forbid that person from returning.


4. frequency

The power to affect, control or manipulate something or someone; the ability to change the development of fluctuating things such as conduct, thoughts or decisions.

The rate of occurrence of anything; the relationship between incidence and time period.

To follow a winding course

Dependent on each other


5. infer

The result or outcome of a cause.

Deduce or conclude (information) from evidence and reasoning rather than from explicit statements

The quality (positive or negative) that renders something desirable or valuable

Unspoiled; still with its original purity; uncorrupted or unsullied


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