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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 

NEUROPSYCHOLOGY

DEFINITION:
The study of the brain related to specific psychological processes and behaviors.

FOUND IN THE NEWS:
Local experts in mental health, political science and neuropsychology told the Dayton Daily News that elections can be a difficult time for mental health as strongly held beliefs can be challenged by deep political divides.
►Dayton Daily News, 07/22/2024

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. Vertebrate

► Grossly offensive to decency or morality.

► Having a backbone or spinal column.

► To honor the memory of with a ceremony

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

2. Yacht

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

► Any of various relatively small sailing or motor-driven vessels used for pleasure cruises or racing.

► Forfeiture of something highly valued for the sake of one considered to have a greater value or claim.

► The drawing of a conclusion by reasoning; the act of deducing.

3. Malignant

► The drawing of a conclusion by reasoning; the act of deducing.

► The act of resting or the state of being at rest.

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

► Harmful, malevolent, injurious. Harmfully cancerous.

4. Gargoyle

► A grotesque ornamental figure or projection.

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

► A teacher and guide in spiritual and philosophical matters.

► An embankment built to prevent flooding

5. Zoology

► A rebirth or revival.

► The branch of biology that deals with animals and animal life, including the study of the structure, physiology, development, and classification of animals.

► Inspiring awe, admiration, or wonder

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

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