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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 

CONGREGATE

DEFINITION:
To come together, to assemble, or to gather.

FOUND IN THE NEWS:
“People who live like this don’t really congregate, and try to stay out of view.”
The Los Angeles Times, 11/27/2023

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. Tsunami

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.

To stress or emphasize; intensify

A very large and destructive wave, generally caused by a tremendous disturbance in the ocean, such as an undersea earthquake or volcanic eruption.


2. Suffrage

A disorderly commotion or disturbance.

The right or privilege of voting; franchise.

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

To cringe in fear


3. Recede

A drawing consisting of the outline of something, especially a human profile, filled in with a solid color.

An unstable, poisonous allotrope of oxygen.

To move back or away from a limit, point, or mark

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


4. Ellipse

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

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

A diffuse mass of interstellar dust or gas or both, visible as luminous patches or areas of darkness

The locus of points for which the sum of the distances from each point to two fixed points is equal


5. Ultraviolet

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

A person authorized to act as representative for another; a deputy.

A relationship of mutual benefit or dependence.

Of or relating to the range of invisible radiation wavelengths from about 4 nanometers, on the border of the x-ray region, to about 380 nanometers, just beyond the violet in the visible spectrum.


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