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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. Divulge

Harmful, malevolent, injurious. Harmfully cancerous.

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

To proclaim publicly

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


2. Alliteration

Having no specific pattern, purpose, or objective.

The repetition of the same sounds or of the same kinds of sounds at the beginning of words or in stressed syllables

Of, relating to, or occurring in the night

A conventional, formulaic, and oversimplified conception, opinion, or image.


3. Accentuate

One thing conceived as representing another; a symbol.

To stress or emphasize; intensify

Self-examination.

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


4. Guerrilla

Grossly offensive to decency or morality.

A member of an irregular, usually indigenous military or paramilitary unit operating in small bands in occupied territory to harass and undermine the enemy

Using or marked by the use of few words; terse or concise.

Inspiring awe, admiration, or wonder


5. Sect

Having a backbone or spinal column.

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

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

The act of reasoning from factual knowledge or evidence.


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