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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 

VIABLE

DEFINITION:
Able to work as intended or able to succeed. Able to continue to exist.

FOUND IN THE NEWS:
Trump contended that without that surplus, “Canada ceases to exist as a viable Country.
Alaska Dispatch, 02/03/2025

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. Very talkative; garrulous.

Reciprocal

Loquacious

Nomenclature

Respiration


2. Feeling or showing haughty disdain.

Kowtow

Feckless

Supercilious

Deciduous


3. The iron-containing respiratory pigment in red blood cells of vertebrates.

Impeach

Soliloquy

Tautology

Hemoglobin


4. Physics that deals with the relationships and conversions between heat and other forms of energy.

Abrogate

Thermodynamics

Epiphany

Oligarchy


5. To renounce under oath; forswear.

Oligarchy

Infrastructure

Fiduciary

Abjure


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