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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. Metamorphosis

A marked change in appearance, character, condition, or function.

Characterized by forcefulness of expression or intensity of emotion or conviction; fervid.

A temple tower of the ancient Assyrians and Babylonians, having the form of a terraced pyramid of successively receding stories.

Vanishing or likely to vanish like vapor.


2. Circumnavigate

The use of words to express something different from and often opposite to their literal meaning.

To proceed completely around:

Clear to the understanding.

Vacuously, smugly, and unconsciously foolish.


3. Incontrovertible

Vacuously, smugly, and unconsciously foolish.

Put together; created.

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

Impossible to dispute; unquestionable


4. Obsequious

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

Full of or exhibiting servile compliance; fawning.

Cheerfully confident; optimistic.

A sudden manifestation of the essence or meaning of something.


5. Kinetic

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

Of, relating to, or produced by motion.

The process in green plants and certain other organisms by which carbohydrates are synthesized from carbon dioxide and water using light as an energy source.

Lacking social polish; tactless.


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