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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 

ADEQUATE

DEFINITION:
Sufficient to satisfy a requirement or meet a need.

FOUND IN THE NEWS:
The National Park Service said the hikers, later identified as the Marvelous Microschool group, had tried to reach Arizona Hot Springs “without adequate preparation,” although Normoyle disputed that account.
The Las Vegas Review-Journal, 04/14/2025

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. Oxidize

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

To increase the positive charge or valence of (an element) by removing electrons.

A diligent, dependable worker.

An extremely distant, and thus old, celestial object whose power output is several thousand times that of our entire galaxy.


2. Lexicon

An extremely distant, and thus old, celestial object whose power output is several thousand times that of our entire galaxy.

Belonging to the period before a war, especially the American Civil War.

A product of disintegration, destruction, or wearing away; debris.

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


3. Facetious

Playfully jocular; humorous

An advocate of the extension of political voting rights, especially to women.

Extremely rapid, hasty, or abrupt; precipitate.

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.


4. Obsequious

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

Full of or exhibiting servile compliance; fawning.

To bring under control; conquer.

Feeling or showing haughty disdain.


5. Kowtow

Feeling or showing haughty disdain.

Cheerfully confident; optimistic.

Falling off or shed at a specific season or stage of growth:

To show servile deference.


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