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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 

EVANGELIST

DEFINITION:
An enthusiastic advocate.

FOUND IN THE NEWS:
Trump portrayed Means — a 37-year-old Stanford medical school graduate and author who describes herself on LinkedIn as a “former surgeon turned metabolic health evangelist” — in his announcement as fully in sync with Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s mission to “Make America Healthy Again.”
The Los Angeles Times, 05/12/2025

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. Yeoman

A diligent, dependable worker.

The predominant influence, as of a state, region, or group, over another or others.

Falling off or shed at a specific season or stage of growth:

A system of names used in an art or science:


2. Feckless

Falling off or shed at a specific season or stage of growth:

A system of names used in an art or science:

A part, portion, or share.

Lacking purpose or vitality; feeble or ineffective.


3. Xenophobe

Eating and drinking in moderation.

A person unduly fearful or contemptuous of that which is foreign, especially of strangers or foreign peoples.

A doctrine holding that all values are baseless and that nothing can be known or communicated.

A plane curve formed by the intersection of a right circular cone and a plane parallel to an element of the cone.


4. Euro

The basic unit of currency among participating European Union countries.

Put together; created.

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

Vacuously, smugly, and unconsciously foolish.


5. Taxonomy

A form of government in which the political authority exercises absolute and centralized control over all aspects of life,

Division into ordered groups or categories.

A factor that determines a range of variations; a boundary

Impossible to dispute; unquestionable


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