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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 

BACKLOT

DEFINITION:
An area behind or adjoining a movie studio containing permanent exterior buildings for outdoor scenes in filmmaking or television productions.

FOUND IN THE NEWS:
Los Angeles City Councilmember Nithya Raman, who serves the 4th District, makes her way across an empty, unnamed backlot, presenting her case to be the city’s next mayor.
►The Los Angeles Times, 05/18/2026

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. weather

► Unspoiled; still with its original purity; uncorrupted or unsullied

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

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

► The short term state of the atmosphere at a specific time and place, including the temperature, humidity, cloud cover, precipitation, wind, etc.

2. replenish

► To exclude; to specify as being an exception.

► 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.

► To run away with quick light steps, to scamper.

► To refill; to renew; to supply again or to add a fresh quantity.

3. majority

► Exhibiting guilty or evasive secrecy.

► Disappointingly inadequate; gloomy and bleak.

► More than half (50%) of some group

► More or most likely to be exposed to the chance of being attacked or harmed, either physically or emotionally.

4. significance

► Different from one another; of different kinds or sorts

► The extent to which something matters; importance

► Strange or mysterious, esp. in an unsettling way

► Deduce or conclude (information) from evidence and reasoning rather than from explicit statements

5. apprehensive

► Dark or dreary in character; joyless, and grim.

► Anticipating something with anxiety or fear.

► Firm or obstinate continuance in a course of action in spite of difficulty or opposition

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

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