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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 

TROPICAL

DEFINITION:
Pertaining to, characteristic of, occurring in, or inhabiting the tropics, the regions of Earth surrounding the Equator.

FOUND IN THE NEWS:
The National Hurricane Center is monitoring Isaac, which has weakened to a tropical storm, tropical Storm Joyce and three other systems in the Atlantic Basin, including one that could head into the Gulf of Mexico.
South Florida Sun Sentinel, 09/30/2024

Words in the News Quiz
5 Elementary 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. A bold, or arrogant strut.

gusto

swagger

boundary

misgivings


2. A piece of written, printed, or electronic matter that provides information or evidence or that serves as an official record.

convey

egregious

document

sabotage


3. More than half (50%) of some group

zeal

affect

topic

majority


4. A barrier constructed across a road, especially as a military defense.

barricade

oppose

uncanny

persistent


5. An individual step, or stage, in any process or scale of values.

degree

exhilarate

terse

vulnerable


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