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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 

BLEACH

DEFINITION:
To become white or pale. Coral bleaching is the process when corals become white due to loss of symbiotic algae and photosynthetic pigments.

FOUND IN THE NEWS:
If water temperatures remain above 84 degrees for a significant period, corals will begin to experience stress and start to bleach.
The Key West Citizen, 06/24/2024

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. Eclectic

Any of several rod-shaped bacteria, of the genus Salmonella, that cause food poisoning and other diseases.

The distribution of energy emitted by a radiant source, arranged in order of wavelengths.

Selecting or employing individual elements from a variety of sources, systems, or styles

A cult or religious movement, a group sharing particular (often unorthodox) political and/or religious beliefs.


2. Protagonist

Either of two times of the year when the sun is at its greatest distance from the celestial equator.

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

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

The main character in a drama or other literary work.


3. Plateau

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

A disorderly commotion or disturbance.

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

Inspiring awe, admiration, or wonder


4. Quota

A proportional part or share.

A dense evergreen forest occupying a tropical region with an annual rainfall of at least 100 inches.

Something that is passed down from preceding generations; a tradition.

Enforced isolation or restriction of free movement imposed to prevent the spread of contagious disease.


5. Phloem

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

The food-conducting tissue of vascular plants, consisting of sieve tubes, fibers, parenchyma, and sclereids.

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

An unstable, poisonous allotrope of oxygen.


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