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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.

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. reduce

► To attempt to stop the progression of.

► Make an idea, impression, or feeling known or understandable to someone.

► To bring down the size, quantity, value or intensity of something; to diminish, to lower, to impair.

► Firm or obstinate continuance in a course of action in spite of difficulty or opposition

2. value

► Deduce or conclude (information) from evidence and reasoning rather than from explicit statements

► The energy and strength for continuing to do something over a long period of time ; power of sustained exertion, or resistance to hardship, illness etc.

► To influence or alter.

► The quality (positive or negative) that renders something desirable or valuable

3. precipice

► A movement or series of moves requiring skill and care