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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 

NEFARIOUS

DEFINITION:
Flagrantly wicked, impious, or villainous.

FOUND IN THE NEWS:
The group complaint and demand for jury trial filed Saturday in the Los Angeles Superior Court alleges that in a “nefarious conspiracy,” major insurers conspired to “eliminate competition between them,” thereby “intentionally and systematically” forcing homeowners to accept the California FAIR Plan.
The Los Angeles Times, 04/21/2025

Words in the News Quiz
5 High 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. To increase the positive charge or valence of (an element) by removing electrons.

Oxidize

Interpolate

Acumen

Tempestuous


2. To certify or attest to (the validity of a signature on a document, for example) as a notary public.

Tempestuous

Vortex

Notarize

Belie


3. Not interesting; dull:

Jejune

Tautology

Kinetic

Evanescent


4. Physics that deals with the relationships and conversions between heat and other forms of energy.

Hegemony

Thermodynamics

Nadir

Deciduous


5. A product of disintegration, destruction, or wearing away; debris.

Detritus

Churlish

Mitosis

Gauche


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