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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 

CONGREGATE

DEFINITION:
To come together, to assemble, or to gather.

FOUND IN THE NEWS:
“People who live like this don’t really congregate, and try to stay out of view.”
The Los Angeles Times, 11/27/2023

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

A schedule of prices or fees.

Consuming or eager to consume great amounts of food; ravenous.

A picture or decorative design made by setting small colored pieces, as of stone or tile, into a surface.

The method or result of concealing personnel or equipment from an enemy by making them appear to be part of the natural surroundings


2. Eclectic

A movement or procedure involving skill and dexterity.

Selecting or employing individual elements from a variety of sources, systems, or styles

Having or demonstrating enthusiasm

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


3. Deduction

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

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.

A drawing consisting of the outline of something, especially a human profile, filled in with a solid color.

The drawing of a conclusion by reasoning; the act of deducing.


4. Undulate

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

A characteristic rate or rhythm of activity; a pace

To move in waves or with a smooth, wavelike motion.

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


5. Dialogue

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

Similarity in some respects between things that are otherwise dissimilar.

Conversation between characters in a drama or narrative

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.


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