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Words in the News

This Week's Word In The News 

NEUROPSYCHOLOGY

DEFINITION:
The study of the brain related to specific psychological processes and behaviors.

FOUND IN THE NEWS:
Local experts in mental health, political science and neuropsychology told the Dayton Daily News that elections can be a difficult time for mental health as strongly held beliefs can be challenged by deep political divides.
Dayton Daily News, 07/22/2024

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5 High School Words

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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. Xenophobe

A set of assumptions, concepts, values, and practices that constitutes a way of viewing reality

A person unduly fearful or contemptuous of that which is foreign, especially of strangers or foreign peoples.

Not limited to or associated with a particular religious denomination.

Having a harmful effect; injurious.


2. Equinox

To weaken or destroy the strength or vitality of.

Either of two points on the celestial sphere at which the ecliptic intersects the celestial equator.

To renounce under oath; forswear.

To insert or introduce between other elements or parts.


3. Evanescent

Cheerfully confident; optimistic.

Vanishing or likely to vanish like vapor.

A reproductive cell having the haploid number of chromosomes, especially a mature sperm or egg capable of fusing with a gamete of the opposite sex to produce the fertilized egg.

The use of words to express something different from and often opposite to their literal meaning.


4. Mitosis

A marked change in appearance, character, condition, or function.

The process in cell division by which the nucleus divides.

Eating and drinking in moderation.

An advocate of the extension of political voting rights, especially to women.


5. Respiration

The act or process of inhaling and exhaling; breathing.

Lacking social polish; tactless.

A stock of terms used in a particular profession, subject, or style; a vocabulary:

Characterized by forcefulness of expression or intensity of emotion or conviction; fervid.


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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.