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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 

EXTRADITE

DEFINITION:
Hand over (a person accused or convicted of a crime) to the jurisdiction of the foreign state in which the crime was committed.

FOUND IN THE NEWS:
Deputy U.S. Marshals from Colorado flew to Canada this week to extradite a fugitive suspect back to the United States, officials announced Friday.
The Denver Post, 03/25/2024

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. Deciduous

To repeat in concise form. To make a summary.

Of or relating to money

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

Falling off or shed at a specific season or stage of growth:


2. Circumlocution

Having one’s true identity concealed.

The use of unnecessarily wordy and indirect language.

The lowest point

Very talkative; garrulous.


3. Vortex

Mournful, dismal, or gloomy, especially to an exaggerated or ludicrous degree.

Characterized by affected, exaggerated, or insincere earnestness.

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

Lacking social polish; tactless.


4. Totalitarian

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

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

Cheerfully confident; optimistic.

A form of government in which the political authority exercises absolute and centralized control over all aspects of life,


5. Inculcate

Any of numerous natural and synthetic compounds consisting of up to millions of repeated linked units,

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

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

A factor that determines a range of variations; a boundary


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