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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 

DEFUNCT

DEFINITION:
No longer in effect or use; no longer operating.

FOUND IN THE NEWS:
The now-defunct mine offers hour-long tours by taking visitors 1,000 feet down the shaft into the southwest side of Pikes Peak, according to the tour company’s website.
The Boulder Daily Camera, 10/14/2024

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. The act of inhabiting; state of inhabiting or dwelling, or of being inhabited; occupancy.

acquire

circumference

egregious

habitation


2. Doubt, apprehension, a feeling of dread

falter

contributions

detail

misgivings


3. Displeasing to the eye

value

unsightly

analyze

interpret


4. To attempt to stop the progression of.

interpret

emerge

contortion

oppose


5. To build or form something by assembling parts.

exhilarate

compose

defiance

construct


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