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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 

ADVERSE

DEFINITION:
Having a negative or harmful effect on something.

FOUND IN THE NEWS:
There was no evidence of “any adverse or harmful chemical or other exposures,” he wrote.
The Boston Herald, 06/15/2026

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. Important with regards to (a subject or matter); relevant

element

infer

pertinent

similar


2. To set fire to (something), to light (something)

adversary

ignite

meander

weather


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

diminish

reduce

versatile

obscure


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

persistent

vigilant

momentum

knoll


5. To make clear; to free from obscurities; to brighten or illuminate.

barricade

clarify

jostle

influence


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