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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 

ROLLICKING

DEFINITION:
Carefree and high-spirited; boisterous.

FOUND IN THE NEWS:
On a rollicking Sunday night at Dodger Stadium, the Dodgers silenced the critics, embraced their birthright and returned to their personal promised land with a 10-5 victory over the New York Mets that gave them a four-games-to-two triumph in the National League Championship Series.
The Los Angeles Times, 10/21/2024

Words in the News Quiz
5 Elementary Words

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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. To refill; to renew; to supply again or to add a fresh quantity.

primarily

replenish

unsightly

guarantee


2. Important with regards to (a subject or matter); relevant

pertinent

obscure

debris

tactic


3. The rate of occurrence of anything; the relationship between incidence and time period.

tactic

terse

frequency

brackish


4. Flexible, liable to change.

somber

malleable

weather

specimen


5. Speech or language that is incomprehensible or unintelligible; gibberish.

interdependence

chronological

jargon

momentum


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