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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 

BEWILDERED

DEFINITION:
Deeply or utterly confused or perplexed.

FOUND IN THE NEWS:
Even the agency’s top official is bewildered by how Piney Point was ever allowed to become a dump site run by an inexperienced private company.
►The Tampa Bay Times, 04/19/2021

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. Polymer

► Any of numerous natural and synthetic compounds consisting of up to millions of repeated linked units,

► To proceed completely around:

► Vacuously, smugly, and unconsciously foolish.

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

2. Hegemony

► Vacuously, smugly, and unconsciously foolish.

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

► Needless repetition of the same sense in different words; redundancy.

► The predominant influence, as of a state, region, or group, over another or others.

3. Notarize

► Clear to the understanding.

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

► A doctrine holding that all values are baseless and that nothing can be known or communicated.

► Not limited to or associated with a particular religious denomination.

4. Mitosis

► Not limited to or associated with a particular religious denomination.

► To endow with the rights of citizenship, especially the right to vote.

► The art or study of correct spelling according to established usage.

► The process in cell division by which the nucleus divides.

5. Fiduciary

► Attended by favorable circumstances; propitious.

► Everyday; commonplace.

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

► To show servile deference.

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