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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 

ENTICING

DEFINITION:
Arousing strong attraction or interest.

FOUND IN THE NEWS:
Meta makes enticing claims for Muse’s capabilities.
►The Los Angeles Times, 10/05/2026

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. precipice

► A long flat-topped fixture in a store or bank across which business is conducted with customers.

► The brink of a dangerous situation.

► To cause to take physical form, or to cause an object to appear.

► A piece of written, printed, or electronic matter that provides information or evidence or that serves as an official record.


2. effect

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

► The result or outcome of a cause.

► Salty or slightly salty, as a mixture of fresh and sea water, such as that found in estuaries

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


3. sabotage

► A deliberate action aimed at weakening an enemy through subversion, obstruction, disruption, and/or destruction.

► To cause to float easily or gently through the air

► Of a central nature, first and foremost

► To hear a conversation one is not intended to hear; to listen in.


4. element

► To hear a conversation one is not intended to hear; to listen in.

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

► One of the simplest or essential parts or principles of which anything consists, or upon which the constitution or fundamental powers of anything are based.

► Strange or mysterious, esp. in an unsettling way


5. habitation

► A thing that is granted, esp. in response to demands.

► The act of inhabiting; state of inhabiting or dwelling, or of being inhabited; occupancy.

► The smaller number or part, esp. a number that is less than half the whole number

► Dependent on each other


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