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This Week's Word In The News 

RESIDENCY

DEFINITION:
A stage of postgraduate medical training.

FOUND IN THE NEWS:
The rural residency program provides doctors with the specialized training they need to work in rural areas and recruit them to remain in those communities once their three-year residency program is completed.
The Rocky Mount Telegram, 12/04/2023

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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. To cause to float easily or gently through the air

significance

knoll

waft

recluse


2. To build or form something by assembling parts.

construct

current

misgivings

obstacles


3. Speech or language that is incomprehensible or unintelligible; gibberish.

jargon

abolish

meticulous

exhilarate


4. Dark or dreary in character; joyless, and grim.

exhilarate

waver

somber

various


5. A state of confused and noisy disturbance

analogy

conspicuous

specimen

commotion


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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.