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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 

UNREDACTED

DEFINITION:
Confidential or sensitive information included or visible in a document, or with text or images not removed or hidden.

FOUND IN THE NEWS:
Sensitive personal information including Social Security numbers was unveiled in the newly unredacted John F. Kennedy assassination documents released this week, and that is not sitting well with the people affected.
The Chicago Tribune, 03/24/2025

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. Tempestuous

Tumultuous; stormy.

Lacking social polish; tactless.

To impress (something) upon the mind of another by frequent instruction or repetition; instill.

Vanishing or likely to vanish like vapor.


2. Abstemious

To impress (something) upon the mind of another by frequent instruction or repetition; instill.

Vanishing or likely to vanish like vapor.

Government by a few, especially by a small faction of persons or families.

Eating and drinking in moderation.


3. Tautology

A factor that determines a range of variations; a boundary

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

Having unlimited or universal power, authority, or force; all-powerful.

To divide (a geographic area) into voting districts so as to give unfair advantage to one party in elections.


4. Laissez faire

To divide (a geographic area) into voting districts so as to give unfair advantage to one party in elections.

Lacking purpose or vitality; feeble or ineffective.

An advocate of the extension of political voting rights, especially to women.

Noninterference in the affairs of others.


5. Deciduous

A doctrine holding that all values are baseless and that nothing can be known or communicated.

To seize another’s place, authority, or possession wrongfully.

A part, portion, or share.

Falling off or shed at a specific season or stage of growth:


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