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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 

OPTIMAL

DEFINITION:
Most favorable or desirable; optimum.

FOUND IN THE NEWS:
In the last several weeks, the water temperature has remained optimal and coral practitioners have started planning to outplant coral on the Keys reef tract.
The Key West Citizen-Herald, 11/04/2024

Words in the News Quiz
5 High School 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. Incontrovertible

A circular strand of DNA in bacteria that contains the hereditary information necessary for cell life.

A set of assumptions, concepts, values, and practices that constitutes a way of viewing reality

Impossible to dispute; unquestionable

Quickness, accuracy, and keenness of judgment or insight.


2. Auspicious

The use of words to express something different from and often opposite to their literal meaning.

Characterized by forcefulness of expression or intensity of emotion or conviction; fervid.

Attended by favorable circumstances; propitious.

To abolish, do away with, or annul, especially by authority.


3. Kowtow

Not limited to or associated with a particular religious denomination.

To show servile deference.

To remove erroneous, vulgar, obscene, or otherwise objectionable material from (a book, for example) before publication.

Lacking serious purpose or occupation; idle.


4. Evanescent

The lowest point

A system of names used in an art or science:

Vanishing or likely to vanish like vapor.

To divide (a geographic area) into voting districts so as to give unfair advantage to one party in elections.


5. Abjure

Cheerfully confident; optimistic.

The side of a right triangle opposite the right angle.

The iron-containing respiratory pigment in red blood cells of vertebrates.

To renounce under oath; forswear.


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