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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 

COMMUNAL

DEFINITION:
Individuals who gather into social groups.

FOUND IN THE NEWS:
It has also proved especially deadly among some communal mammals, such as elephant seals and sea lions in South America, as well as caged fur-farmed animals in Europe.
The Los Angeles Times, 04/15/2024

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. Having unlimited or universal power, authority, or force; all-powerful.

Omnipotent

Jejune

Gerrymander

Quasar


2. To endow with the rights of citizenship, especially the right to vote.

Enfranchise

Contradiction

Sanguine

Gauche


3. Vacuously, smugly, and unconsciously foolish.

Quotidian

Fatuous

Photosynthesis

Gamete


4. The use of unnecessarily wordy and indirect language.

Gamete

Unctuous

Pecuniary

Circumlocution


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

Plasma

Bellicose

Respiration

Oxidize


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