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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 

ALLOCATION

DEFINITION:
The act or process of giving out parts of a whole.

FOUND IN THE NEWS:
Under those same drought agreements, Nevada’s allocation would be cut to 270,000 acre-feet if Lake Mead were to fall to 1,025 feet.
The Las Vegas Review-Journal, 05/29/2023

Words in the News Quiz
5 High School 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. To remove erroneous, vulgar, obscene, or otherwise objectionable material from (a book, for example) before publication.

Recapitulate

Tempestuous

Expurgate

Evanescent


2. To seize another’s place, authority, or possession wrongfully.

Filibuster

Usurp

Totalitarian

Jejune


3. A temple tower of the ancient Assyrians and Babylonians, having the form of a terraced pyramid of successively receding stories.

Jejune

Impeach

Detritus

Ziggurat


4. To certify or attest to (the validity of a signature on a document, for example) as a notary public.

Fatuous

Tectonic

Notarize

Lucid


5. The act or process of inhaling and exhaling; breathing.

Parameter

Circumlocution

Respiration

Taxonomy


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