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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. Flourish

A relationship of mutual benefit or dependence.

To grow well or luxuriantly; thrive

In a deplorable state of distress or misfortune; miserable.

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


2. Pulverize

Loud, noisy, and lacking in restraint or discipline

The arrangement of events in time

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

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


3. Marsupial

Marked by hearty conviviality and good cheer.

A person with masterly skill or technique in the arts.

The practice of professing beliefs, feelings, or virtues that one does not hold or possess; falseness.

Any of various nonplacental mammals, including kangaroos, opossums, bandicoots, and wombats, found principally in Australia and the Americas.


4. Analogy

Incorrectness of reasoning or belief

A poisonous substance, especially a protein, that is produced by living cells or organisms.

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

Similarity in some respects between things that are otherwise dissimilar.


5. Stereotype

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

Appropriateness of behavior or conduct

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

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


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