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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 

CONDOLENCE

DEFINITION:
An expression of sympathy, especially on the occasion of a death.

FOUND IN THE NEWS:
President Joe Biden and first lady Jill Biden extended their “deepest condolences” to Comperatore’s family.
The Morning Cal, 07/15/2024

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. Parabola

Of or relating to a holding of something in trust for another.

A plane curve formed by the intersection of a right circular cone and a plane parallel to an element of the cone.

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

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


2. Notarize

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

To endow with the rights of citizenship, especially the right to vote.

Physics that deals with the relationships and conversions between heat and other forms of energy.

To certify or attest to (the validity of a signature on a document, for example) as a notary public.


3. Quasar

The clear, yellowish fluid portion of blood, lymph, or intramuscular fluid in which cells are suspended.

An extremely distant, and thus old, celestial object whose power output is several thousand times that of our entire galaxy.

The art or study of correct spelling according to established usage.

To proceed completely around:


4. Hemoglobin

The iron-containing respiratory pigment in red blood cells of vertebrates.

Lacking social polish; tactless.

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

Deception by trickery or sophistry.


5. Laissez faire

Noninterference in the affairs of others.

Put together; created.

A circular strand of DNA in bacteria that contains the hereditary information necessary for cell life.

A dramatic or literary form of discourse in which a character talks to himself or herself or reveals his or her thoughts without addressing a listener.


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