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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. Contradiction

A product of disintegration, destruction, or wearing away; debris.

Logical incongruity

Interchanged, given, or owed to each other.

Having a bad disposition; surly.


2. Plasma

Having a bad disposition; surly.

Extremely rapid, hasty, or abrupt; precipitate.

To bring under control; conquer.

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


3. Irony

The use of unnecessarily wordy and indirect language.

The use of words to express something different from and often opposite to their literal meaning.

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

Of, relating to, or produced by motion.


4. Totalitarian

A set of assumptions, concepts, values, and practices that constitutes a way of viewing reality

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

A form of government in which the political authority exercises absolute and centralized control over all aspects of life,

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


5. Yeoman

To certify or attest to (the validity of a signature on a document, for example) as a notary public.

A diligent, dependable worker.

A system of names used in an art or science:

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


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