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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

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. Rainforest

One thing conceived as representing another; a symbol.

Of, relating to, or occurring in the night

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

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


2. Technique

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

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

Grossly offensive to decency or morality.

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


3. Alliteration

The repetition of the same sounds or of the same kinds of sounds at the beginning of words or in stressed syllables

A proportional part or share.

Having a backbone or spinal column.

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


4. Laconic

Having a backbone or spinal column.

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

The method or result of concealing personnel or equipment from an enemy by making them appear to be part of the natural surroundings

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


5. Quarantine

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

To swing indecisively from one course of action or opinion to another.

To move in waves or with a smooth, wavelike motion.

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


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