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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 

WRANGLING

DEFINITION:
Moving a person or thing somewhere, usually with difficulty or using force.

FOUND IN THE NEWS:
The location in Alexandria, Louisiana, would remove logistical headaches caused by wrangling children from foster homes and shelters across the country and not having anywhere to put them during final preparations for flight.
The Boston Herald, 07/13/2026

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. classify

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

To identify by or divide into classes; to categorize.

A barrier constructed across a road, especially as a military defense.

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


2. establish

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

To make stable or firm; to confirm.

Dark, faint or indistinct.

The line that bounds a circle or other two-dimensional figure.


3. furtive

The state of being serene; calmness; peacefulness.

Exhibiting guilty or evasive secrecy.

To make something by merging parts.

Speech or language that is incomprehensible or unintelligible; gibberish.


4. infer

Speech or language that is incomprehensible or unintelligible; gibberish.

Something small enough to escape casual notice.

To cause to take physical form, or to cause an object to appear.

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


5. dismal

Doubt, apprehension, a feeling of dread

Watchful, especially for danger or disorder; alert; wary

Something that impedes, stands in the way of, or holds up progress

Disappointingly inadequate; gloomy and bleak.


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