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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.
This Week's Word In The News 

VERTEBRAE

DEFINITION:
Each of the series of small bones forming the backbone.

FOUND IN THE NEWS:
The photographer with The Washington Post who was attacked by Jewish settlers in the occupied West Bank so badly that several vertebrae were broken said Sunday she was increasingly angry that Israel’s military seems to protect settlers more than the Palestinians they threaten.
►Associated Press, 10/19/2026

Words in the News Quiz
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. jabber

► To talk rapidly, indistinctly, or unintelligibly; to utter gibberish or nonsense.

► To exclude; to specify as being an exception.

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

► Firm or obstinate continuance in a course of action in spite of difficulty or opposition


2. oppose

► Firm or obstinate continuance in a course of action in spite of difficulty or opposition

► A pleasant smell or odour.

► To attempt to stop the progression of.

► To completely engage the attention of.


3. uncanny

► The rate of occurrence of anything; the relationship between incidence and time period.

► Strange or mysterious, esp. in an unsettling way

► Tending to socialize or be social; friendly; inviting; congenial.

► Flexible, liable to change.


4. compromise

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

► A thing that is granted, esp. in response to demands.

► To sway back and forth; to totter or reel.

► Explain the meaning of (information, words, or actions)


5. momentum

► Something that impedes, stands in the way of, or holds up progress

► A gift or payment to a common fund or collection.

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

► A relationship of resemblance or equivalence between two situations, people, or objects,


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