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This Week's Word In The News 

OPTIMAL

DEFINITION:
Most favorable or desirable; optimum.

FOUND IN THE NEWS:
In the last several weeks, the water temperature has remained optimal and coral practitioners have started planning to outplant coral on the Keys reef tract.
The Key West Citizen-Herald, 11/04/2024

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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. attentive

Natural ability to acquire knowledge or skill.

Paying attention; noticing, watching, listening, or attending closely.

To build or form something by assembling parts.

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


2. outlandish

The system of production and distribution and consumption.

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

Bizarre, strange

Representation of a concept through symbols or underlying meanings of objects or qualities.


3. waft

The act of inhabiting; state of inhabiting or dwelling, or of being inhabited; occupancy.

A large or dense group of insects, esp. flying ones.

A gift or payment to a common fund or collection.

To cause to float easily or gently through the air


4. exasperation

An individual step, or stage, in any process or scale of values.

The ability to foresee or prepare wisely for the future.

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

To set fire to (something), to light (something)


5. counter

The brink of a dangerous situation.

Anything that assures a certain outcome.

To run away with quick light steps, to scamper.

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


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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.