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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 

EXTRADITE

DEFINITION:
Hand over (a person accused or convicted of a crime) to the jurisdiction of the foreign state in which the crime was committed.

FOUND IN THE NEWS:
Deputy U.S. Marshals from Colorado flew to Canada this week to extradite a fugitive suspect back to the United States, officials announced Friday.
The Denver Post, 03/25/2024

Words in the News Quiz
5 Middle 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. Jaunty

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

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

Conversation between characters in a drama or narrative

Having a buoyant or self-confident air; brisk.


2. Mutation

A proportional part or share.

An alteration or change, as in nature, form, or quality.

The science and art of using all the forces of a nation to execute approved plans as effectively as possible during peace or war.

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


3. Exponent

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

The distance that light travels in a vacuum in one year.

Of, relating to, or occurring in the night

One that speaks for, represents, or advocates


4. Malignant

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

A disorderly commotion or disturbance.

Harmful, malevolent, injurious. Harmfully cancerous.

Exceeding the limits of propriety or good manners; improperly forward or bold


5. Gargoyle

A movement or procedure involving skill and dexterity.

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

A person with masterly skill or technique in the arts.

A grotesque ornamental figure or projection.


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