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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 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. bluff

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

A particular geographic region.

An attempt to deceive someone into believing that one can or will do something.

A movement or series of moves requiring skill and care


2. meticulous

Anything that assures a certain outcome.

Timid, fearful, overly cautious

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

A process by which a task is completed; a way of doing something.


3. value

A process by which a task is completed; a way of doing something.

An assemblage or display; a gathering, collection of people or things.

Having traits or characteristics in common; alike, comparable.

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


4. recluse

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

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

Hidden, secret

The result or outcome of a cause.


5. hasten

To move in a quick fashion.

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 send someone away and forbid that person from returning.

To hear a conversation one is not intended to hear; to listen in.


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