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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 phase important to comprehension or expression. Students are then asked to find the words within the newspaper and copy the sentence for context to it's overall meaning or function in a sentence.

This Week's Word In The News

PARCHED
DEFINITION: Extremely dry because of hot weather or drought.	FOUND IN THE NEWS: Patches of parched landscape have caused once-green golf courses to close and limited golf cart use, the Greeley Tribune reported. ►The Denver Post, 02/18/2019

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. Quota

► A proportional part or share.

► A person with masterly skill or technique in the arts.

► A grotesque ornamental figure or projection.

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

2. Ultraviolet

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

► The distance that light travels in a vacuum in one year.

► Of or relating to the range of invisible radiation wavelengths from about 4 nanometers, on the border of the x-ray region, to about 380 nanometers, just beyond the violet in the visible spectrum.

► The act of reasoning from factual knowledge or evidence.

3. Undulate

► To move in waves or with a smooth, wavelike motion.