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This Week's Word In The News 

SUBPOENA

DEFINITION:
A legal document that commands a person or entity to testify as a witness at a specified time and place.

FOUND IN THE NEWS:
Workers at Mar-a-Lago, former President Donald Trump's Palm Beach club, have reportedly been subpoenaed in the investigation into his keeping of classified documents at the property.
, 03/20/2023

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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. The source or reason of an event or action

cause

frequency

accomplish

serenity


2. An individual instance that represents a class; an example.

accomplish

serenity

emerge

specimen


3. To identify by or divide into classes; to categorize.

classify

affect

bluff

barricade


4. Disappointingly inadequate; gloomy and bleak.

dismal

obstacles

concoction

current


5. The act of exasperating or the state of being exasperated; irritation; keen or bitter anger.

exasperation

meticulous

narrate

banish


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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.