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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 

TRANSITION

DEFINITION:
A change from one thing to the next, either in action or state of being, as in a job transition.

FOUND IN THE NEWS:
VA benefits regional offices would be closed, and the VA would not be able to provide career counseling or transition assistance program activities.
►The Las Vegas Review-Journal, 09/29/2025

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. pristine

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

► To set fire to (something), to light (something)

► A piece of written, printed, or electronic matter that provides information or evidence or that serves as an official record.

► Speech or language that is incomprehensible or unintelligible; gibberish.

2. hasten

► Speech or language that is incomprehensible or unintelligible; gibberish.

► To talk rapidly, indistinctly, or unintelligibly; to utter gibberish or nonsense.

► To move in a quick fashion.

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

3. scarcity

► Scattered fragments, typically of something wrecked or destroyed

► The power to affect, control or manipulate something or someone; the ability to change the development of fluctuating things such as conduct, thoughts or decisions.

► An inadequate amount of something; a shortage

► Capable of doing many things competently

4. jostle

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

► To bump into or brush against while in motion.

► Something that impedes, stands in the way of, or holds up progress

► The source or reason of an event or action

5. misgivings

► The source or reason of an event or action

► Sly; crafty; clever in surreptitious behaviour.

► A small hill or mound.

► Doubt, apprehension, a feeling of dread

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