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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 

BLEACH

DEFINITION:
To become white or pale. Coral bleaching is the process when corals become white due to loss of symbiotic algae and photosynthetic pigments.

FOUND IN THE NEWS:
If water temperatures remain above 84 degrees for a significant period, corals will begin to experience stress and start to bleach.
The Key West Citizen, 06/24/2024

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. observe

To move or swing a weapon back and forth, particularly if demonstrating skill.

To notice or view, especially carefully or with attention to detail.

To bring down the size, quantity, value or intensity of something; to diminish, to lower, to impair.

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.


2. luminous

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

To bump into or brush against while in motion.

Emitting light; glowing brightly

Capable of doing many things competently


3. cause

Different from one another; of different kinds or sorts

Watchful, especially for danger or disorder; alert; wary

The source or reason of an event or action

To recover, especially from an illness; to get better from an illness.


4. furtive

To overpower; to subdue; to put down.

The fervor or tireless devotion for a person, cause, or ideal and determination in its furtherance; diligent enthusiasm; powerful interest.

A large or dense group of insects, esp. flying ones.

Exhibiting guilty or evasive secrecy.


5. commotion

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

Something small enough to escape casual notice.

A state of confused and noisy disturbance

Strange or mysterious, esp. in an unsettling way


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