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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 

IMPROBABLE

DEFINITION:
Unlikely to take place under the circumstances or in the usual course of events.

FOUND IN THE NEWS:
That’s where Democratic candidates are trying to accomplish the improbable by flipping a pair of Trump-friendly congressional seats and carving into Republicans’ narrow 218 to 213 majority in the U.S. House of Representatives.
The Key West Citizen-Herald, 03/31/2025

Words in the News Quiz
5 Middle 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. Flourish

Of, relating to, or occurring in the night

To grow well or luxuriantly; thrive

A form of a verb that in some languages, such as English, can function independently as an adjective.

Relating to a system of writing, such as that of ancient Egypt, in which pictorial symbols are used to represent meaning or sounds or a combination of meaning and sound.


2. Phloem

The food-conducting tissue of vascular plants, consisting of sieve tubes, fibers, parenchyma, and sclereids.

An embankment built to prevent flooding

The quality or state of being tranquil; serenity.

A movement or procedure involving skill and dexterity.


3. Embargo

A prohibition by a government on certain or all trade with a foreign nation

A weather phenomenon in the Eastern Pacific that is precisely equivalent to a hurricane.

The branch of biology that deals with animals and animal life, including the study of the structure, physiology, development, and classification of animals.

A person with masterly skill or technique in the arts.


4. Deign

To condescend to give or grant

A cult or religious movement, a group sharing particular (often unorthodox) political and/or religious beliefs.

The method or result of concealing personnel or equipment from an enemy by making them appear to be part of the natural surroundings

The arrangement of events in time


5. Voracious

The method or result of concealing personnel or equipment from an enemy by making them appear to be part of the natural surroundings

The arrangement of events in time

A metric unit of length equal to 1,000 meters (0.62 mile).

Consuming or eager to consume great amounts of food; ravenous.


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