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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 

ANTAGONIZING

DEFINITION:
Causing someone to become hostile or angry,

FOUND IN THE NEWS:
"We’ve received reports of police antagonizing protesters, too, so we’re looking into that."
The Las Vegas Review-Journal, 06/16/2025

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. source

To identify by or divide into classes; to categorize.

Capable of doing many things competently

The person, place or thing from which something (information, goods, etc.) comes or is acquired.

Obvious or easy to notice.


2. jargon

Approaching; drawing near; about to happen

Speech or language that is incomprehensible or unintelligible; gibberish.

Explain the meaning of (information, words, or actions)

The quantity of motion of a moving body; the impetus gained by a moving object


3. analyze

The quantity of motion of a moving body; the impetus gained by a moving object

A bold, or arrogant strut.

Deduce or conclude (information) from evidence and reasoning rather than from explicit statements

Examine methodically and in detail the constitution or structure of something, esp. information.


4. analogy

An inadequate amount of something; a shortage

A relationship of resemblance or equivalence between two situations, people, or objects,

A small hill or mound.

A state of confused and noisy disturbance


5. translucent

Dark, faint or indistinct.

Allowing light to pass through but diffusing it

The line that bounds a circle or other two-dimensional figure.

A gift or payment to a common fund or collection.


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