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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 

FORENSICS

DEFINITION:
Related to scientific methods of solving crimes; examining the objects or substances involved in a crime.

FOUND IN THE NEWS:
Prosecutors questioned digital forensics analyst Matthew Hovanec during rebuttal testimony on Friday, asking him about finding deleted messages on a cellphone.
The Las Vegas Review-Journal, 08/26/2024

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. To run away with quick light steps, to scamper.

scurry

accomplish

eavesdrop

abolish


2. The dividing line or location between two areas.

eavesdrop

abolish

quell

boundary


3. Displeasing to the eye

interpret

unsightly

reflection

jargon


4. Obvious or easy to notice.

conspicuous

fragrance

emerge

effect


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

emerge

effect

scarcity

swarm


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