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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 

CONDOLENCE

DEFINITION:
An expression of sympathy, especially on the occasion of a death.

FOUND IN THE NEWS:
President Joe Biden and first lady Jill Biden extended their “deepest condolences” to Comperatore’s family.
The Morning Cal, 07/15/2024

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. Plateau

Having a backbone or spinal column.

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

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

A form of a verb that in some languages, such as English, can function independently as an adjective.


2. Protagonist

The main character in a drama or other literary work.

The right or privilege of voting; franchise.

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

One that is inconvenient, annoying, or vexatious; a bother.


3. Stereotype

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

One that is inconvenient, annoying, or vexatious; a bother.

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

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


4. Antibody

A Y-shaped protein on the surface of B cells that is secreted into the blood or lymph in response to an antigenic stimulus

Marked by hearty conviviality and good cheer.

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

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


5. Boycott

To abstain from or act together in abstaining from using, buying, or dealing with as an expression of protest or disfavor or as a means of coercion

To honor the memory of with a ceremony

Strikingly unconventional and far-fetched in style or appearance; odd

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


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