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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 

ARID

DEFINITION:
Being without moisture; extremely dry; parched.

FOUND IN THE NEWS:
The unpredictability of illegal fireworks make them dangerous in the arid desert climate, said Riddle, who is also bureau commander of Metro’s Northeast Area Command.
The Las Vegas Review-Journal, 06/30/2025

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. serenity

Anything that may be possible; a possibility

A long flat-topped fixture in a store or bank across which business is conducted with customers.

The state of being serene; calmness; peacefulness.

A small hill or mound.


2. jabber

To talk rapidly, indistinctly, or unintelligibly; to utter gibberish or nonsense.

An inadequate amount of something; a shortage

The place set for the end of a journey, or to which something is sent; place or point aimed at.

Progress toward a goal.


3. waft

The line that bounds a circle or other two-dimensional figure.

To cause to float easily or gently through the air

A great amount or number, often of people.

An individual instance that represents a class; an example.


4. oppose

To attempt to stop the progression of.

The power to affect, control or manipulate something or someone; the ability to change the development of fluctuating things such as conduct, thoughts or decisions.

The source or reason of an event or action

Exhibiting guilty or evasive secrecy.


5. terse

Brief, concise, to the point.

A process by which a task is completed; a way of doing something.

A relationship of resemblance or equivalence between two situations, people, or objects,

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


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