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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 

QUARANTINE

DEFINITION:
A condition, period of time, or place in which a person, animal, plant, vehicle, or amount of material suspected of carrying an infectious agent is kept in confinement or isolated in an effort to prevent disease from spreading.

FOUND IN THE NEWS:
The state’s Department of Food and Agriculture has placed the farm under quarantine and has suspended distribution of any raw milk product produced on or after Nov. 27.
The Los Angeles Times, 12/09/2024

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. Exponent

Conversation between characters in a drama or narrative

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

One that speaks for, represents, or advocates

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.


2. Solstice

Harmful, malevolent, injurious. Harmfully cancerous.

To have a great ambition or ultimate goal

A very large and destructive wave, generally caused by a tremendous disturbance in the ocean, such as an undersea earthquake or volcanic eruption.

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


3. Boisterous

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

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

Loud, noisy, and lacking in restraint or discipline

Inspiring awe, admiration, or wonder


4. Tariff

The act of reasoning from factual knowledge or evidence.

A schedule of prices or fees.

A preparation of a weakened or killed pathogen.

Self-examination.


5. Technique

Self-examination.

Grossly offensive to decency or morality.

To pound, crush, or grind to a powder or dust.

The systematic procedure by which a complex or scientific task is accomplished.


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