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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 

DETRIMENTAL

DEFINITION:
Causing harm or damage.

FOUND IN THE NEWS:
With the A’s relocation process in motion, if the court found SB1 to be unconstitutional, it would be detrimental to the team and all parties involved in the stadium process, according to the A’s.
The Las Vegas Review-Journal, 04/22/2024

Words in the News Quiz
5 Middle School Words

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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. Nocturnal

The branch of biology that deals with animals and animal life, including the study of the structure, physiology, development, and classification of animals.

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

Of, relating to, or occurring in the night

One thing conceived as representing another; a symbol.


2. Decorum

The act of reasoning from factual knowledge or evidence.

The quality or state of being tranquil; serenity.

Appropriateness of behavior or conduct

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


3. Bizarre

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

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

Loud, noisy, and lacking in restraint or discipline

The pattern produced on a photosensitive medium that has been exposed by holography and then photographically developed.


4. Omnivore

Forfeiture of something highly valued for the sake of one considered to have a greater value or claim.

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

The right or privilege of voting; franchise.

The practice of professing beliefs, feelings, or virtues that one does not hold or possess; falseness.


5. Marsupial

The practice of professing beliefs, feelings, or virtues that one does not hold or possess; falseness.

A prohibition by a government on certain or all trade with a foreign nation

A cult or religious movement, a group sharing particular (often unorthodox) political and/or religious beliefs.

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


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