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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 

IMPROBABLE

DEFINITION:
Unlikely to take place under the circumstances or in the usual course of events.

FOUND IN THE NEWS:
That’s where Democratic candidates are trying to accomplish the improbable by flipping a pair of Trump-friendly congressional seats and carving into Republicans’ narrow 218 to 213 majority in the U.S. House of Representatives.
The Key West Citizen-Herald, 03/31/2025

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. Immune

Not subject to an obligation imposed on others; exempt.

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

Sharing the same opinions or views; being in complete harmony or accord.

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


2. Kilometer

A person with masterly skill or technique in the arts.

A metric unit of length equal to 1,000 meters (0.62 mile).

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

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


3. Silhouette

A drawing consisting of the outline of something, especially a human profile, filled in with a solid color.

Similarity in some respects between things that are otherwise dissimilar.

The right or privilege of voting; franchise.

Loud, noisy, and lacking in restraint or discipline


4. Outrageous

Grossly offensive to decency or morality.

To stress or emphasize; intensify

Self-examination.

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


5. Ozone

Self-examination.

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

The act of resting or the state of being at rest.

An unstable, poisonous allotrope of oxygen.


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