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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 

IMPROBABLE

DEFINITION:
Unlikely to take place under the circumstances or in the usual course of events.

FOUND IN THE NEWS:
That’s where Democratic candidates are trying to accomplish the improbable by flipping a pair of Trump-friendly congressional seats and carving into Republicans’ narrow 218 to 213 majority in the U.S. House of Representatives.
The Key West Citizen-Herald, 03/31/2025

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. apprehensive

Anticipating something with anxiety or fear.

To gain, usually by one's own exertions; to get as one's own.

The state of being serene; calmness; peacefulness.

Tending to socialize or be social; friendly; inviting; congenial.


2. swagger

To sink or fall to the bottom; to settle

A bold, or arrogant strut.

The energy and strength for continuing to do something over a long period of time ; power of sustained exertion, or resistance to hardship, illness etc.

To set fire to (something), to light (something)


3. uncanny

Strange or mysterious, esp. in an unsettling way

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 result or outcome of a cause.

An individual instance that represents a class; an example.


4. disdain

An individual instance that represents a class; an example.

More than half (50%) of some group

A feeling of contempt or scorn.

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


5. ominous

Specifically, giving indication of a coming ill; being an evil omen

A large or dense group of insects, esp. flying ones.

The quantity of motion of a moving body; the impetus gained by a moving object

To run away with quick light steps, to scamper.


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