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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 

INBOUND

DEFINITION:
Travelling towards a particular point or place rather than leaving it.

FOUND IN THE NEWS:
The runway was closed and inbound and outbound traffic was delayed for a few hours.
The Key West Citizen, 06/22/2026

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. diminish

Sly; crafty; clever in surreptitious behaviour.

To make smaller.

Watchful, especially for danger or disorder; alert; wary

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


2. materialize

An assemblage or display; a gathering, collection of people or things.

To cause to take physical form, or to cause an object to appear.

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

An individual instance that represents a class; an example.


3. chronological

In order of time from the earliest to the latest

To attempt to stop the progression of.

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

To move or swing a weapon back and forth, particularly if demonstrating skill.


4. element

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

To move or swing a weapon back and forth, particularly if demonstrating skill.

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

One of the simplest or essential parts or principles of which anything consists, or upon which the constitution or fundamental powers of anything are based.


5. multitude

A great amount or number, often of people.

To make stable or firm; to confirm.

To stick out

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


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