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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 

MURKY

DEFINITION:
A situation that is complicated and unpleasant, and about which many facts are not clear.

FOUND IN THE NEWS:
What happened next is murky.
The Duluth News Tribune, 03/27/2023

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. Exhibiting guilty or evasive secrecy.

topic

swagger

furtive

function


2. To completely engage the attention of.

circumference

gusto

engross

narrate


3. Formally put an end to (a system, practice, or institution)

jut

banish

abolish

value


4. To follow a winding course

exhilarate

meander

pristine

relationship


5. Doubt, apprehension, a feeling of dread

boundary

misgivings

accomplish

diminish


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