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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 

RUINOUS

DEFINITION:
Causing, or tending to cause, ruin; destructive; baneful; pernicious.

FOUND IN THE NEWS:
Fire officials are used to battling large fires this time of year, but a ruinous combination of extreme conditions and challenging geography hampered early efforts.
The Los Angeles Times, 11/11/2024

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. The act of exasperating or the state of being exasperated; irritation; keen or bitter anger.

element

exasperation

brackish

terse


2. To drive away by scattering, or so to cause to vanish.

headway

debris

dispel

brandish


3. A deliberate action aimed at weakening an enemy through subversion, obstruction, disruption, and/or destruction.

circumference

unsightly

sabotage

similar


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

uncanny

abolish

attentive

topic


5. A barrier constructed across a road, especially as a military defense.

topic

engross

kindle

barricade


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