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This Week's Word In The News 

INVASIVE

DEFINITION:
Moving into all areas of something and difficult to stop. An invasive species is a non-native organism causing damage to an established environment.

FOUND IN THE NEWS:
On the eve of this weekend’s famed Calaveras Jumping Frog Jubilee, state wildlife officials met to ponder the management of a disease-carrying invasive frog with powerful legs, a dopey smile and a dangerous appetite.
The San Jose Mercury New, 05/22/2023

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5 Elementary Words

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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. Brief, concise, to the point.

accomplish

falter

terse

compromise


2. Exhibiting guilty or evasive secrecy.

defiance

debris

furtive

weather


3. To recover, especially from an illness; to get better from an illness.

recuperate

cause

somber

conspicuous


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

somber

conspicuous

primarily

counter


5. The person, place or thing from which something (information, goods, etc.) comes or is acquired.

source

bluff

establish

clarify


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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.