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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

ALLOCATION
DEFINITION: The act or process of giving out parts of a whole.	FOUND IN THE NEWS: Under those same drought agreements, Nevada’s allocation would be cut to 270,000 acre-feet if Lake Mead were to fall to 1,025 feet. ►The Las Vegas Review-Journal, 05/29/2023

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. Vacillate

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

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

► One who habitually takes advantage of the generosity of others without making any useful return.

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

2. Levee

► One who habitually takes advantage of the generosity of others without making any useful return.

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

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

► An embankment built to prevent flooding

3. Boisterous

► The main character in a drama or other literary work.