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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 

NEFARIOUS

DEFINITION:
Flagrantly wicked, impious, or villainous.

FOUND IN THE NEWS:
The group complaint and demand for jury trial filed Saturday in the Los Angeles Superior Court alleges that in a “nefarious conspiracy,” major insurers conspired to “eliminate competition between them,” thereby “intentionally and systematically” forcing homeowners to accept the California FAIR Plan.
The Los Angeles Times, 04/21/2025

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. jostle

To drive away by scattering, or so to cause to vanish.

Progress toward a goal.

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

To bump into or brush against while in motion.


2. compromise

Paying attention; noticing, watching, listening, or attending closely.

Approaching; drawing near; about to happen

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

More than half (50%) of some group


3. replenish

Speech or language that is incomprehensible or unintelligible; gibberish.

Make an idea, impression, or feeling known or understandable to someone.

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

Assuming power or authority without justification; arrogant and domineering


4. source

The person, place or thing from which something (information, goods, etc.) comes or is acquired.

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

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.


5. tactic

A movement or series of moves requiring skill and care

Emitting light; glowing brightly

The ability to foresee or prepare wisely for the future.

To exclude; to specify as being an exception.


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