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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 

EVANGELIST

DEFINITION:
An enthusiastic advocate.

FOUND IN THE NEWS:
Trump portrayed Means — a 37-year-old Stanford medical school graduate and author who describes herself on LinkedIn as a “former surgeon turned metabolic health evangelist” — in his announcement as fully in sync with Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s mission to “Make America Healthy Again.”
The Los Angeles Times, 05/12/2025

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. Vaccine

To honor the memory of with a ceremony

The main character in a drama or other literary work.

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

A preparation of a weakened or killed pathogen.


2. Formidable

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

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

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

Inspiring awe, admiration, or wonder


3. Flourish

To grow well or luxuriantly; thrive

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

The arrangement of events in time

A fungus, usually of the class Ascomycetes, that grows symbiotically with algae,


4. Light-Year

A fungus, usually of the class Ascomycetes, that grows symbiotically with algae,

A poisonous substance, especially a protein, that is produced by living cells or organisms.

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

Incorrectness of reasoning or belief


5. Metaphor

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

Loud, noisy, and lacking in restraint or discipline

One thing conceived as representing another; a symbol.

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


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