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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 

UNREDACTED

DEFINITION:
Confidential or sensitive information included or visible in a document, or with text or images not removed or hidden.

FOUND IN THE NEWS:
Sensitive personal information including Social Security numbers was unveiled in the newly unredacted John F. Kennedy assassination documents released this week, and that is not sitting well with the people affected.
The Chicago Tribune, 03/24/2025

Words in the News Quiz
5 Middle 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. Deduction

The drawing of a conclusion by reasoning; the act of deducing.

A teacher and guide in spiritual and philosophical matters.

To cringe in fear

One that takes in everything available, as with the mind.


2. Technique

The systematic procedure by which a complex or scientific task is accomplished.

Incorrectness of reasoning or belief

Harmful, malevolent, injurious. Harmfully cancerous.

A diffuse mass of interstellar dust or gas or both, visible as luminous patches or areas of darkness


3. Rainforest

A diffuse mass of interstellar dust or gas or both, visible as luminous patches or areas of darkness

The right or privilege of voting; franchise.

A dense evergreen forest occupying a tropical region with an annual rainfall of at least 100 inches.

A closed plane figure bounded by three or more line segments.


4. Voracious

An unstable, poisonous allotrope of oxygen.

To abstain from or act together in abstaining from using, buying, or dealing with as an expression of protest or disfavor or as a means of coercion

Relating to a system of writing, such as that of ancient Egypt, in which pictorial symbols are used to represent meaning or sounds or a combination of meaning and sound.

Consuming or eager to consume great amounts of food; ravenous.


5. Vacillate

To swing indecisively from one course of action or opinion to another.

Grossly offensive to decency or morality.

Strikingly unconventional and far-fetched in style or appearance; odd

To rejoice greatly; be jubilant or triumphant


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