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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 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. Oxidize

To increase the positive charge or valence of (an element) by removing electrons.

The use of unnecessarily wordy and indirect language.

Lacking purpose or vitality; feeble or ineffective.

The basic unit of currency among participating European Union countries.


2. Abjure

The basic unit of currency among participating European Union countries.

Interchanged, given, or owed to each other.

To renounce under oath; forswear.

Any of numerous natural and synthetic compounds consisting of up to millions of repeated linked units,


3. Impeach

To make an accusation against.

Of or relating to a holding of something in trust for another.

Lacking serious purpose or occupation; idle.

A form of government in which the political authority exercises absolute and centralized control over all aspects of life,


4. Tautology

A form of government in which the political authority exercises absolute and centralized control over all aspects of life,

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

Needless repetition of the same sense in different words; redundancy.

Attended by favorable circumstances; propitious.


5. Interpolate

Clear to the understanding.

Of, relating to, or produced by motion.

To insert or introduce between other elements or parts.

Characterized by affected, exaggerated, or insincere earnestness.


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