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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 

ROOSTER TAIL

DEFINITION:
A high-arching spray (as of water, dust, or snow) thrown up behind a fast-moving motorboat, motor vehicle, or skier.

FOUND IN THE NEWS:
A second red flag was waved during the fifth race of the day when Rollin Transport got into a rooster tail on the turn of the first lap, resulting in the boat going onto its side before flipping.
The Key West Citizen, 11/10/2025

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. Feckless

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

The iron-containing respiratory pigment in red blood cells of vertebrates.

Very talkative; garrulous.

Lacking purpose or vitality; feeble or ineffective.


2. Incognito

To abolish, do away with, or annul, especially by authority.

Having one’s true identity concealed.

Feeling or showing haughty disdain.

Warlike in manner or temperament; pugnacious.


3. Obsequious

Full of or exhibiting servile compliance; fawning.

Division into ordered groups or categories.

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.

Extremely rapid, hasty, or abrupt; precipitate.


4. Deleterious

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.

Extremely rapid, hasty, or abrupt; precipitate.

Playfully jocular; humorous

Having a harmful effect; injurious.


5. Yeoman

A doctrine holding that all values are baseless and that nothing can be known or communicated.

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

Logical incongruity

A diligent, dependable worker.


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