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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 

ATMOSPHERIC

DEFINITION:
Anything related to the atmosphere, which is the layer of gases surrounding a planet. An atmospheric river is a narrow corridor concentrated water vapor.

FOUND IN THE NEWS:
A major atmospheric river storm — strong enough to potentially rival some of the extreme storms that have walloped Southern California in recent winters — is barreling toward the coast, raising the specter of damaging landslides and flooding across the region.
The Los Angeles Times, 02/10/2025

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. Paradigm

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

A set of assumptions, concepts, values, and practices that constitutes a way of viewing reality

Of or relating to a holding of something in trust for another.

Of the same or similar nature or kind


2. Incognito

To certify or attest to (the validity of a signature on a document, for example) as a notary public.

Having one’s true identity concealed.

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

Put together; created.


3. Supercilious

To bring under control; conquer.

Feeling or showing haughty disdain.

Division into ordered groups or categories.

A plane curve formed by the intersection of a right circular cone and a plane parallel to an element of the cone.


4. Metamorphosis

A plane curve formed by the intersection of a right circular cone and a plane parallel to an element of the cone.

To proceed completely around:

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

A marked change in appearance, character, condition, or function.


5. Equinox

Tumultuous; stormy.

Lacking serious purpose or occupation; idle.

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

Having a bad disposition; surly.


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