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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 

ATMOSPHERIC

DEFINITION:
Anything related to the atmosphere, which is the layer of gases surrounding a planet. An atmospheric river is a narrow corridor concentrated water vapor.

FOUND IN THE NEWS:
A major atmospheric river storm — strong enough to potentially rival some of the extreme storms that have walloped Southern California in recent winters — is barreling toward the coast, raising the specter of damaging landslides and flooding across the region.
The Los Angeles Times, 02/10/2025

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. Lichen

A form of a verb that in some languages, such as English, can function independently as an adjective.

A fungus, usually of the class Ascomycetes, that grows symbiotically with algae,

A disorderly commotion or disturbance.

To move in waves or with a smooth, wavelike motion.


2. Marsupial

Being without or almost without hope

Any of various nonplacental mammals, including kangaroos, opossums, bandicoots, and wombats, found principally in Australia and the Americas.

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

The locus of points for which the sum of the distances from each point to two fixed points is equal


3. Light-Year

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

Having a backbone or spinal column.

The distance that light travels in a vacuum in one year.

In a deplorable state of distress or misfortune; miserable.


4. Flourish

To grow well or luxuriantly; thrive

A weather phenomenon in the Eastern Pacific that is precisely equivalent to a hurricane.

A preparation of a weakened or killed pathogen.

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


5. Parasite

One who habitually takes advantage of the generosity of others without making any useful return.

Any of several rod-shaped bacteria, of the genus Salmonella, that cause food poisoning and other diseases.

An elevated, comparatively level expanse of land; a tableland.

Of, relating to, or occurring in the night


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