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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 

ARID

DEFINITION:
Being without moisture; extremely dry; parched.

FOUND IN THE NEWS:
The unpredictability of illegal fireworks make them dangerous in the arid desert climate, said Riddle, who is also bureau commander of Metro’s Northeast Area Command.
The Las Vegas Review-Journal, 06/30/2025

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. furtive

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

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

Exhibiting guilty or evasive secrecy.

To recover, especially from an illness; to get better from an illness.


2. defiance

To start (a fire) or light (a torch).

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

Open resistance; bold disobedience.

Anything that may be possible; a possibility


3. stamina

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.

Exceptional, conspicuous, outstanding, most usually in a negative fashion.

To make happy, cheer up.

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


4. minority

The smaller number or part, esp. a number that is less than half the whole number

Dark or dreary in character; joyless, and grim.

An inadequate amount of something; a shortage

A feeling of contempt or scorn.


5. jabber

The result or outcome of a cause.

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

Examine methodically and in detail the constitution or structure of something, esp. information.

To move in a quick fashion.


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