Words in the News

This Week's Word In The News 

LANGUISH

DEFINITION:
Existing in an unpleasant or unwanted situation, often for a long time:

FOUND IN THE NEWS:
President Biden’s aid request has languished for as long as Johnson has been speaker.
The Los Angeles Times, 03/18/2024

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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. The energy and strength for continuing to do something over a long period of time ; power of sustained exertion, or resistance to hardship, illness etc.

jabber

monotonous

stamina

vigilant


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

clarify

impending

exasperation

relationship


3. Of a central nature, first and foremost

primarily

chronological

apprehensive

repugnant


4. The quantity of motion of a moving body; the impetus gained by a moving object

repugnant

tactic

momentum

cause


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

classify

scurry

influence

obscure


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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.