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Words in the News

This Week's Word In The News 

DETRIMENTAL

DEFINITION:
Causing harm or damage.

FOUND IN THE NEWS:
With the A’s relocation process in motion, if the court found SB1 to be unconstitutional, it would be detrimental to the team and all parties involved in the stadium process, according to the A’s.
The Las Vegas Review-Journal, 04/22/2024

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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. guarantee

To sway back and forth; to totter or reel.

Anything that assures a certain outcome.

To make smaller.

The short term state of the atmosphere at a specific time and place, including the temperature, humidity, cloud cover, precipitation, wind, etc.


2. imperious

To talk rapidly, indistinctly, or unintelligibly; to utter gibberish or nonsense.

Assuming power or authority without justification; arrogant and domineering

Scattered fragments, typically of something wrecked or destroyed

Explain the meaning of (information, words, or actions)


3. obscure

To run away with quick light steps, to scamper.

To exclude; to specify as being an exception.

Dark, faint or indistinct.

To make happy, cheer up.


4. element

Speech or language that is incomprehensible or unintelligible; gibberish.

One of the simplest or essential parts or principles of which anything consists, or upon which the constitution or fundamental powers of anything are based.

The power to affect, control or manipulate something or someone; the ability to change the development of fluctuating things such as conduct, thoughts or decisions.

To make sure or certain of something (usually some future event or condition).


5. establish

To bring down the size, quantity, value or intensity of something; to diminish, to lower, to impair.

A relationship of resemblance or equivalence between two situations, people, or objects,

To make stable or firm; to confirm.

Anything that may be possible; a possibility


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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.