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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 

SEGREGATED

DEFINITION:
Kept separate or treated differently according to race, sex, religion, etc.

FOUND IN THE NEWS:
The other flag, dubbed “History,” is a nod to the Black experience in St. Petersburg, which was once heavily segregated.
The Key West Citizen, 10/13/2025

Words in the News Quiz
5 High School Words

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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

Lacking or marked by a lack of self-confidence; shy and timid.

A place or situation regarded as drawing into its center all that surrounds it.

A diligent, dependable worker.

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


2. Nadir

A set of assumptions, concepts, values, and practices that constitutes a way of viewing reality

Clear to the understanding.

The lowest point

Shaking and vibration at the surface of the earth resulting from underground movement along a fault plane.


3. Hypotenuse

A circular strand of DNA in bacteria that contains the hereditary information necessary for cell life.

Lacking social polish; tactless.

An extremely distant, and thus old, celestial object whose power output is several thousand times that of our entire galaxy.

The side of a right triangle opposite the right angle.


4. Belie

The use of unnecessarily wordy and indirect language.

To picture falsely; misrepresent.

To renounce under oath; forswear.

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


5. Nomenclature

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

Government by a few, especially by a small faction of persons or families.

The art or study of correct spelling according to established usage.

A system of names used in an art or science:


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