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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 

HEIST

DEFINITION:
A robbery or burglary, especially from an institution such as a bank or museum.

FOUND IN THE NEWS:
Five suspects accused in connection with the heist were taken into custody late Wednesday, bringing the total arrest count to seven.
The Las Vegas Review-Journal, 11/03/2025

Words in the News Quiz
5 High School 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. Churlish

To make an accusation against.

Vanishing or likely to vanish like vapor.

Having a bad disposition; surly.

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


2. Expurgate

Either of two points on the celestial sphere at which the ecliptic intersects the celestial equator.

Tumultuous; stormy.

Characterized by affected, exaggerated, or insincere earnestness.

To remove erroneous, vulgar, obscene, or otherwise objectionable material from (a book, for example) before publication.


3. Reciprocal

Not limited to or associated with a particular religious denomination.

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

To bring under control; conquer.

Interchanged, given, or owed to each other.


4. Chicanery

Deception by trickery or sophistry.

Lacking social polish; tactless.

Having a harmful effect; injurious.

To divide (a geographic area) into voting districts so as to give unfair advantage to one party in elections.


5. Photosynthesis

The process in green plants and certain other organisms by which carbohydrates are synthesized from carbon dioxide and water using light as an energy source.

Mournful, dismal, or gloomy, especially to an exaggerated or ludicrous degree.

Playfully jocular; humorous

A person unduly fearful or contemptuous of that which is foreign, especially of strangers or foreign peoples.


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