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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 

ARID

DEFINITION:
Being without moisture; extremely dry; parched.

FOUND IN THE NEWS:
The unpredictability of illegal fireworks make them dangerous in the arid desert climate, said Riddle, who is also bureau commander of Metro’s Northeast Area Command.
The Las Vegas Review-Journal, 06/30/2025

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. Enfranchise

Something done or paid to compensate or make amends.

Full of or exhibiting servile compliance; fawning.

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

Interchanged, given, or owed to each other.


2. Vacuous

To repeat in concise form. To make a summary.

Physics that deals with the relationships and conversions between heat and other forms of energy.

A circular strand of DNA in bacteria that contains the hereditary information necessary for cell life.

Lacking serious purpose or occupation; idle.


3. Deleterious

Characterized by forcefulness of expression or intensity of emotion or conviction; fervid.

To increase the positive charge or valence of (an element) by removing electrons.

Having a harmful effect; injurious.

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


4. Bellicose

The use of unnecessarily wordy and indirect language.

Of the same or similar nature or kind

Put together; created.

Warlike in manner or temperament; pugnacious.


5. Gamete

A person unduly fearful or contemptuous of that which is foreign, especially of strangers or foreign peoples.

Falling off or shed at a specific season or stage of growth:

Playfully jocular; humorous

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.


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