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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 

EXTRADITE

DEFINITION:
Hand over (a person accused or convicted of a crime) to the jurisdiction of the foreign state in which the crime was committed.

FOUND IN THE NEWS:
Deputy U.S. Marshals from Colorado flew to Canada this week to extradite a fugitive suspect back to the United States, officials announced Friday.
The Denver Post, 03/25/2024

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. Tariff

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

The food-conducting tissue of vascular plants, consisting of sieve tubes, fibers, parenchyma, and sclereids.

A schedule of prices or fees.

The right or privilege of voting; franchise.


2. Immune

Relating to a system of writing, such as that of ancient Egypt, in which pictorial symbols are used to represent meaning or sounds or a combination of meaning and sound.

One that is inconvenient, annoying, or vexatious; a bother.

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

Not subject to an obligation imposed on others; exempt.


3. Quarantine

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

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

An embankment built to prevent flooding

Enforced isolation or restriction of free movement imposed to prevent the spread of contagious disease.


4. Bamboozle

A movement or procedure involving skill and dexterity.

Of or relating to the range of invisible radiation wavelengths from about 4 nanometers, on the border of the x-ray region, to about 380 nanometers, just beyond the violet in the visible spectrum.

To take in by elaborate methods of deceit

A teacher and guide in spiritual and philosophical matters.


5. Chronology

The arrangement of events in time

An alteration or change, as in nature, form, or quality.

One who rejects a religion, cause, allegiance, or group for another; a deserter.

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


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