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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 

UNREDACTED

DEFINITION:
Confidential or sensitive information included or visible in a document, or with text or images not removed or hidden.

FOUND IN THE NEWS:
Sensitive personal information including Social Security numbers was unveiled in the newly unredacted John F. Kennedy assassination documents released this week, and that is not sitting well with the people affected.
►The Chicago Tribune, 03/24/2025

Words in the News Quiz
5 Middle 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. Nuisance

► The repetition of the same sounds or of the same kinds of sounds at the beginning of words or in stressed syllables

► A form of a verb that in some languages, such as English, can function independently as an adjective.

► A preparation of a weakened or killed pathogen.

► One that is inconvenient, annoying, or vexatious; a bother.

2. Plateau

► Selecting or employing individual elements from a variety of sources, systems, or styles

► Any of various nonplacental mammals, including kangaroos, opossums, bandicoots, and wombats, found principally in Australia and the Americas.

► An elevated, comparatively level expanse of land; a tableland.

► To move back or away from a limit, point, or mark

3. Accentuate

► To stress or emphasize; intensify

► One thing conceived as representing another; a symbol.

► The act of reasoning from factual knowledge or evidence.

► The method or result of concealing personnel or equipment from an enemy by making them appear to be part of the natural surroundings

4. Spectrum

► Consuming or eager to consume great amounts of food; ravenous.

► The distribution of energy emitted by a radiant source, arranged in order of wavelengths.

► The act of resting or the state of being at rest.

► The branch of biology that deals with animals and animal life, including the study of the structure, physiology, development, and classification of animals.

5. Impertinent

► The branch of biology that deals with animals and animal life, including the study of the structure, physiology, development, and classification of animals.

► To pound, crush, or grind to a powder or dust.

► A conventional, formulaic, and oversimplified conception, opinion, or image.

► Exceeding the limits of propriety or good manners; improperly forward or bold

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