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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 

ANTICIPATE

DEFINITION:
Regard as probable; expect or predict.

FOUND IN THE NEWS:
Many economists still anticipate that a negative impact from trade wars will materialize this year for American workers.
The Boston Herald, 05/19/2025

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. grueling

So difficult or taxing as to make one exhausted; backbreaking.

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

Watchful, especially for danger or disorder; alert; wary

Different from one another; of different kinds or sorts


2. commotion

A state of confused and noisy disturbance

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

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

Natural ability to acquire knowledge or skill.


3. jargon

The place set for the end of a journey, or to which something is sent; place or point aimed at.

Speech or language that is incomprehensible or unintelligible; gibberish.

To send someone away and forbid that person from returning.

A particular geographic region.


4. classify

A particular geographic region.

Connection or association; the condition of being related.

Of a central nature, first and foremost

To identify by or divide into classes; to categorize.


5. source

Formally put an end to (a system, practice, or institution)

An inadequate amount of something; a shortage

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

The person, place or thing from which something (information, goods, etc.) comes or is acquired.


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