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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 

ROOSTER TAIL

DEFINITION:
A high-arching spray (as of water, dust, or snow) thrown up behind a fast-moving motorboat, motor vehicle, or skier.

FOUND IN THE NEWS:
A second red flag was waved during the fifth race of the day when Rollin Transport got into a rooster tail on the turn of the first lap, resulting in the boat going onto its side before flipping.
The Key West Citizen, 11/10/2025

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.

A stock of terms used in a particular profession, subject, or style; a vocabulary:

Extremely rapid, hasty, or abrupt; precipitate.

A factor that determines a range of variations; a boundary


2. Tautology

A factor that determines a range of variations; a boundary

A dramatic or literary form of discourse in which a character talks to himself or herself or reveals his or her thoughts without addressing a listener.

Needless repetition of the same sense in different words; redundancy.

A product of disintegration, destruction, or wearing away; debris.


3. Abstemious

Eating and drinking in moderation.

Belonging to the period before a war, especially the American Civil War.

To seize another’s place, authority, or possession wrongfully.

To weaken or destroy the strength or vitality of.


4. Vacuous

Having a harmful effect; injurious.

Lacking serious purpose or occupation; idle.

To show servile deference.

To increase the positive charge or valence of (an element) by removing electrons.


5. Evanescent

To modify, as by shortening or simplifying or by skewing the content in a certain manner.

Vanishing or likely to vanish like vapor.

Having a bad disposition; surly.

Not limited to or associated with a particular religious denomination.


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