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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 

FACT-CHECKING

DEFINITION:
To check that all the facts in a piece of writing, a news article, a speech, etc. are correct.

FOUND IN THE NEWS:
He criticized the moderators for fact-checking him and said they did not fact-check Harris.
Las Vegas Review-Journal, 09/16/2024

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. Antebellum

To impress (something) upon the mind of another by frequent instruction or repetition; instill.

To show servile deference.

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

An underlying base or foundation especially for an organization or system.


2. Temblor

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

Warlike in manner or temperament; pugnacious.

Something done or paid to compensate or make amends.

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.


3. Nadir

The use of unnecessarily wordy and indirect language.

The lowest point

An advocate of the extension of political voting rights, especially to women.

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


4. Kinetic

To divide (a geographic area) into voting districts so as to give unfair advantage to one party in elections.

Of, relating to, or produced by motion.

To insert or introduce between other elements or parts.

Tumultuous; stormy.


5. Usurp

To picture falsely; misrepresent.

The use of obstructionist tactics, especially prolonged speechmaking, for the purpose of delaying legislative action.

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

Deception by trickery or sophistry.


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