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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 

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

Words in the News Quiz
5 High 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. Irony

Of the same or similar nature or kind

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

The use of unnecessarily wordy and indirect language.

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


2. Usurp

To impress (something) upon the mind of another by frequent instruction or repetition; instill.

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.

To seize another’s place, authority, or possession wrongfully.

Eating and drinking in moderation.


3. Taxonomy

To increase the positive charge or valence of (an element) by removing electrons.

Falling off or shed at a specific season or stage of growth:

Division into ordered groups or categories.

To endow with the rights of citizenship, especially the right to vote.


4. Winnow

Overbearing pride or presumption; arrogance.

Not limited to or associated with a particular religious denomination.

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

To separate or get rid of (an undesirable part); eliminate.


5. Kowtow

Having one’s true identity concealed.

The lowest point

To show servile deference.

Vacuously, smugly, and unconsciously foolish.


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