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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 

EXTINGUISH

DEFINITION:
To stop a fire or a light from burning. To bring to an end.

FOUND IN THE NEWS:
Fargo police responded and attempted to put the fire out before the Fargo Fire Department extinguished the fire.
The Forum of Fargo-Moorhead, 08/31/2026

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. Scattered fragments, typically of something wrecked or destroyed

infer

translucent

knoll

debris


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

brandish

commotion

attentive

degree


3. Connection or association; the condition of being related.

relationship

luminous

furtive

gusto


4. Hidden, secret

furtive

gusto

document

recluse


5. To make something by merging parts.

various

topic

precipice

compose


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