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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 

RENDERING

DEFINITION:
Giving something to someone.

FOUND IN THE NEWS:
The replay booth has been working overtime in the Stanley Cup Final, and the officials charged with rendering the final verdicts probably won’t be getting any comped dinners in Las Vegas anytime soon.
►The Las Vegas Review-Journal, 06/08/2026

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. detail

► In order of time from the earliest to the latest

► Something small enough to escape casual notice.

► One of the simplest or essential parts or principles of which anything consists, or upon which the constitution or fundamental powers of anything are based.

► The quality (positive or negative) that renders something desirable or valuable

2. affect

► The quality (positive or negative) that renders something desirable or valuable

► Important with regards to (a subject or matter); relevant

► To bump into or brush against while in motion.

► To influence or alter.

3. establish

► The act of inhabiting; state of inhabiting or dwelling, or of being inhabited; occupancy.

► To build or form something by assembling parts.

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

► To make stable or firm; to confirm.

4. current

► The state of being serene; calmness; peacefulness.

► More than half (50%) of some group

► Existing or occurring at the moment.

► To make smaller.

5. ensure

► The energy and strength for continuing to do something over a long period of time ; power of sustained exertion, or resistance to hardship, illness etc.

► To sink or fall to the bottom; to settle

► A large or dense group of insects, esp. flying ones.

► To make sure or certain of something (usually some future event or condition).

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