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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 

ADEQUATE

DEFINITION:
Sufficient to satisfy a requirement or meet a need.

FOUND IN THE NEWS:
The National Park Service said the hikers, later identified as the Marvelous Microschool group, had tried to reach Arizona Hot Springs “without adequate preparation,” although Normoyle disputed that account.
The Las Vegas Review-Journal, 04/14/2025

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. Lacking social polish; tactless.

Tectonic

Abjure

Gauche

Loquacious


2. Having a harmful effect; injurious.

Paradigm

Detritus

Deleterious

Hemoglobin


3. To show servile deference.

Chromosome

Diffident

Kowtow

Omnipotent


4. Of the same or similar nature or kind

Abrogate

Nanotechnology

Homogeneous

Suffragist


5. Vanishing or likely to vanish like vapor.

Plasma

Evanescent

Contradiction

Belie


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