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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 

RESPONSE

DEFINITION:
An answer to a question or a reaction to something.

FOUND IN THE NEWS:
“And the response right away was ‘Sure!’”
The Reading Eagle, 09/07/2026

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. To overpower; to subdue; to put down.

furtive

evidence

similar

quell


2. A barrier constructed across a road, especially as a military defense.

barricade

classify

recuperate

reflection


3. Tending to socialize or be social; friendly; inviting; congenial.

recuperate

reflection

scurry

sociable


4. Offensive or repulsive; arousing disgust or aversion

weather

circumference

affect

repugnant


5. An individual step, or stage, in any process or scale of values.

cause

degree

fragrance

banish


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