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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 

SKEWED

DEFINITION:
Distorted or biased; giving an unfair or misleading view of something.

FOUND IN THE NEWS:
He suggested the misnaming was intentional — and a reflection of the administration’s skewed priorities.
The Los Angeles Times, 06/23/2025

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. A piece of written, printed, or electronic matter that provides information or evidence or that serves as an official record.

counter

document

observe

gusto


2. A movement or series of moves requiring skill and care

tactic

area

method

outlandish


3. Allowing light to pass through but diffusing it

outlandish

specimen

translucent

jostle


4. To talk rapidly, indistinctly, or unintelligibly; to utter gibberish or nonsense.

acquire

jabber

cause

momentum


5. Specifically, giving indication of a coming ill; being an evil omen

conspicuous

ominous

kindle

malleable


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