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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 

IMPROBABLE

DEFINITION:
Unlikely to take place under the circumstances or in the usual course of events.

FOUND IN THE NEWS:
That’s where Democratic candidates are trying to accomplish the improbable by flipping a pair of Trump-friendly congressional seats and carving into Republicans’ narrow 218 to 213 majority in the U.S. House of Representatives.
The Key West Citizen-Herald, 03/31/2025

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. A marked change in appearance, character, condition, or function.

Chromosome

Oxidize

Temblor

Metamorphosis


2. A plane curve formed by the intersection of a right circular cone and a plane parallel to an element of the cone.

Parabola

Expurgate

Usurp

Hemoglobin


3. To weaken or destroy the strength or vitality of.

Interpolate

Enervate

Lugubrious

Vacuous


4. Division into ordered groups or categories.

Taxonomy

Polymer

Bowdlerize

Nonsectarian


5. Needless repetition of the same sense in different words; redundancy.

Tautology

Loquacious

Paradigm

Gauche


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