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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 

QUARANTINE

DEFINITION:
A condition, period of time, or place in which a person, animal, plant, vehicle, or amount of material suspected of carrying an infectious agent is kept in confinement or isolated in an effort to prevent disease from spreading.

FOUND IN THE NEWS:
The state’s Department of Food and Agriculture has placed the farm under quarantine and has suspended distribution of any raw milk product produced on or after Nov. 27.
The Los Angeles Times, 12/09/2024

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. pristine

A deliberate action aimed at weakening an enemy through subversion, obstruction, disruption, and/or destruction.

Quick and neat in action; skillful.

To completely engage the attention of.

Unspoiled; still with its original purity; uncorrupted or unsullied


2. relationship

The power to affect, control or manipulate something or someone; the ability to change the development of fluctuating things such as conduct, thoughts or decisions.

Connection or association; the condition of being related.

To move in a quick fashion.

To run away with quick light steps, to scamper.


3. foresight

The ability to foresee or prepare wisely for the future.

The system of production and distribution and consumption.

Strange or mysterious, esp. in an unsettling way

The quality (positive or negative) that renders something desirable or valuable


4. obstacles

The quality (positive or negative) that renders something desirable or valuable

To make stable or firm; to confirm.

Something that impedes, stands in the way of, or holds up progress

A bold, or arrogant strut.


5. primarily

A mixture of various ingredients or elements.

Tending to socialize or be social; friendly; inviting; congenial.

Of a central nature, first and foremost

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


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