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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 

RESIDENCY

DEFINITION:
A stage of postgraduate medical training.

FOUND IN THE NEWS:
The rural residency program provides doctors with the specialized training they need to work in rural areas and recruit them to remain in those communities once their three-year residency program is completed.
The Rocky Mount Telegram, 12/04/2023

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. Immune

Not subject to an obligation imposed on others; exempt.

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

The branch of biology that deals with animals and animal life, including the study of the structure, physiology, development, and classification of animals.

A grotesque ornamental figure or projection.


2. Metaphor

A grotesque ornamental figure or projection.

To grow well or luxuriantly; thrive

One thing conceived as representing another; a symbol.

To swing indecisively from one course of action or opinion to another.


3. Vertebrate

Appropriateness of behavior or conduct

The right or privilege of voting; franchise.

Having a backbone or spinal column.

An elevated, comparatively level expanse of land; a tableland.


4. Divulge

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

To proclaim publicly

The supporting and water-conducting tissue of vascular plants, consisting primarily of tracheids and vessels; woody tissue.

Similarity in some respects between things that are otherwise dissimilar.


5. Embargo

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.

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

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

Loud, noisy, and lacking in restraint or discipline


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