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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 

FACT-CHECKING

DEFINITION:
To check that all the facts in a piece of writing, a news article, a speech, etc. are correct.

FOUND IN THE NEWS:
He criticized the moderators for fact-checking him and said they did not fact-check Harris.
Las Vegas Review-Journal, 09/16/2024

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. Strategy

To grow well or luxuriantly; thrive

An unstable, poisonous allotrope of oxygen.

An intricate structure of interconnecting passages through which it is difficult to find one’s way; a maze.

The science and art of using all the forces of a nation to execute approved plans as effectively as possible during peace or war.


2. Maneuver

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

A movement or procedure involving skill and dexterity.

To abstain from or act together in abstaining from using, buying, or dealing with as an expression of protest or disfavor or as a means of coercion

To stress or emphasize; intensify


3. Nuisance

A Y-shaped protein on the surface of B cells that is secreted into the blood or lymph in response to an antigenic stimulus

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

A teacher and guide in spiritual and philosophical matters.

Self-examination.


4. Virtuoso

Self-examination.

Similarity in some respects between things that are otherwise dissimilar.

Appropriateness of behavior or conduct

A person with masterly skill or technique in the arts.


5. Kilometer

Either of two times of the year when the sun is at its greatest distance from the celestial equator.

To cringe in fear

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

Having a buoyant or self-confident air; brisk.


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