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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 

WRANGLING

DEFINITION:
Moving a person or thing somewhere, usually with difficulty or using force.

FOUND IN THE NEWS:
The location in Alexandria, Louisiana, would remove logistical headaches caused by wrangling children from foster homes and shelters across the country and not having anywhere to put them during final preparations for flight.
►The Boston Herald, 07/13/2026

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. narrate

► In order of time from the earliest to the latest

► To relate a story or series of events by speech or writing.

► Subject; theme; a category or general area of interest.

► A form of acrobatic display which involves the dramatic bending and flexing of the human body.

2. element

► Speech or language that is incomprehensible or unintelligible; gibberish.

► 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.

► To follow a winding course

► The result or outcome of a cause.

3. infer

► Specifically, giving indication of a coming ill; being an evil omen

► More or most likely to be exposed to the chance of being attacked or harmed, either physically or emotionally.

► Deduce or conclude (information) from evidence and reasoning rather than from explicit statements

► To bump into or brush against while in motion.

4. furtive

► Facts or observations presented in support of an assertion.

► Exhibiting guilty or evasive secrecy.

► To sink or fall to the bottom; to settle

► To gain, usually by one's own exertions; to get as one's own.

5. boundary

► The dividing line or location between two areas.

► The source or reason of an event or action

► To make something by merging parts.

► A movement or series of moves requiring skill and care

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