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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

GUARDRAIL
DEFINITION: A railing guarding against danger. A fixture to prevent access to dangerous or off-limits areas.	FOUND IN THE NEWS: As a progressive freshman mayor, Johnson’s challenge now is to stand up for Chicago’s large immigrant community while also navigating the risk of antagonizing Trump, who many experts believe will have fewer guardrails during his second term. ►The Chicago Tribune, 01/27/2025

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. Diffident

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

► Vacuously, smugly, and unconsciously foolish.

► Lacking or marked by a lack of self-confidence; shy and timid.

► Physics that deals with the relationships and conversions between heat and other forms of energy.

2. Precipitous

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

► Something done or paid to compensate or make amends.

► An advocate of the extension of political voting rights, especially to women.

► Extremely rapid, hasty, or abrupt; precipitate.

3. Epiphany

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