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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 Middle 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. Stereotype

A person with masterly skill or technique in the arts.

A conventional, formulaic, and oversimplified conception, opinion, or image.

A prohibition by a government on certain or all trade with a foreign nation

The repetition of the same sounds or of the same kinds of sounds at the beginning of words or in stressed syllables


2. Deign

Enforced isolation or restriction of free movement imposed to prevent the spread of contagious disease.

To condescend to give or grant

A characteristic rate or rhythm of activity; a pace

Selecting or employing individual elements from a variety of sources, systems, or styles


3. Suffrage

Strikingly unconventional and far-fetched in style or appearance; odd

A form of a verb that in some languages, such as English, can function independently as an adjective.

The right or privilege of voting; franchise.

An unstable, poisonous allotrope of oxygen.


4. Hieroglyphic

The pattern produced on a photosensitive medium that has been exposed by holography and then photographically developed.

Relating to a system of writing, such as that of ancient Egypt, in which pictorial symbols are used to represent meaning or sounds or a combination of meaning and sound.

The main character in a drama or other literary work.

Having a backbone or spinal column.


5. Divulge

Having a backbone or spinal column.

A dense evergreen forest occupying a tropical region with an annual rainfall of at least 100 inches.

A poisonous substance, especially a protein, that is produced by living cells or organisms.

To proclaim publicly


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