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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 

AMENDMENT

DEFINITION:
A formal or official change made to a law, contract, constitution, or other legal document.

FOUND IN THE NEWS:
Also, it includes six proposed constitutional amendments.
►The Key West Citizen-Herald, 10/07/2024

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. Guru

► An unstable, poisonous allotrope of oxygen.

► The quality or state of being tranquil; serenity.

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

► A teacher and guide in spiritual and philosophical matters.

2. Vacillate

► Something that is passed down from preceding generations; a tradition.

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

► A form of a verb that in some languages, such as English, can function independently as an adjective.

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

3. Malignant

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

► Marked by hearty conviviality and good cheer.

► Harmful, malevolent, injurious. Harmfully cancerous.

► To take in by elaborate methods of deceit

4. Mosaic

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

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

► To abstain from or act together in abstaining from using, buying, or dealing with as an expression of protest or disfavor or as a means of coercion

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

5. Hieroglyphic

► A closed plane figure bounded by three or more line segments.

► Either of two times of the year when the sun is at its greatest distance from the celestial equator.

► 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.

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

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