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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 

QUARANTINE

DEFINITION:
A condition, period of time, or place in which a person, animal, plant, vehicle, or amount of material suspected of carrying an infectious agent is kept in confinement or isolated in an effort to prevent disease from spreading.

FOUND IN THE NEWS:
The state’s Department of Food and Agriculture has placed the farm under quarantine and has suspended distribution of any raw milk product produced on or after Nov. 27.
►The Los Angeles Times, 12/09/2024

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. Quota

► Appropriateness of behavior or conduct

► To have a great ambition or ultimate goal

► A weather phenomenon in the Eastern Pacific that is precisely equivalent to a hurricane.

► A proportional part or share.

2. Rainforest

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

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

► Relating to a system of writing, such as that of ancient Egypt, in which pictorial symbols are used to represent meaning or sounds or a combination of meaning and sound.

► Harmful, malevolent, injurious. Harmfully cancerous.

3. Gargoyle

► Harmful, malevolent, injurious. Harmfully cancerous.

► The act of reasoning from factual knowledge or evidence.

► A grotesque ornamental figure or projection.

► A movement or procedure involving skill and dexterity.

4. Xylem

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

► Any of various nonplacental mammals, including kangaroos, opossums, bandicoots, and wombats, found principally in Australia and the Americas.

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

► Having a buoyant or self-confident air; brisk.

5. Plateau

► An intricate structure of interconnecting passages through which it is difficult to find one’s way; a maze.

► To cringe in fear

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

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

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