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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 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. Auspicious

Of, relating to, or produced by motion.

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

Attended by favorable circumstances; propitious.

A doctrine holding that all values are baseless and that nothing can be known or communicated.


2. Diffident

The predominant influence, as of a state, region, or group, over another or others.

The lowest point

Lacking or marked by a lack of self-confidence; shy and timid.

Needless repetition of the same sense in different words; redundancy.


3. Omnipotent

Having unlimited or universal power, authority, or force; all-powerful.

Playfully jocular; humorous

An underlying base or foundation especially for an organization or system.

A reproductive cell having the haploid number of chromosomes, especially a mature sperm or egg capable of fusing with a gamete of the opposite sex to produce the fertilized egg.


4. Obsequious

Full of or exhibiting servile compliance; fawning.

To repeat in concise form. To make a summary.

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

A factor that determines a range of variations; a boundary


5. Abrogate

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

A factor that determines a range of variations; a boundary

A place or situation regarded as drawing into its center all that surrounds it.

To abolish, do away with, or annul, especially by authority.


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