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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 

EXTRADITE

DEFINITION:
Hand over (a person accused or convicted of a crime) to the jurisdiction of the foreign state in which the crime was committed.

FOUND IN THE NEWS:
Deputy U.S. Marshals from Colorado flew to Canada this week to extradite a fugitive suspect back to the United States, officials announced Friday.
The Denver Post, 03/25/2024

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. Moiety

A stock of terms used in a particular profession, subject, or style; a vocabulary:

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

Shaking and vibration at the surface of the earth resulting from underground movement along a fault plane.

A part, portion, or share.


2. Auspicious

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

The side of a right triangle opposite the right angle.

Attended by favorable circumstances; propitious.

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


3. Yeoman

The use of obstructionist tactics, especially prolonged speechmaking, for the purpose of delaying legislative action.

Of, relating to, or produced by motion.

Deception by trickery or sophistry.

A diligent, dependable worker.


4. Quasar

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

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.

Cheerfully confident; optimistic.

The science and technology of building electronic circuits and devices from single atoms and molecules.


5. Enfranchise

Cheerfully confident; optimistic.

The science and technology of building electronic circuits and devices from single atoms and molecules.

Quickness, accuracy, and keenness of judgment or insight.

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


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