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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 

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.

One that speaks for, represents, or advocates

Loud, noisy, and lacking in restraint or discipline

A member of an irregular, usually indigenous military or paramilitary unit operating in small bands in occupied territory to harass and undermine the enemy


4. Wretched

In a deplorable state of distress or misfortune; miserable.

The food-conducting tissue of vascular plants, consisting of sieve tubes, fibers, parenchyma, and sclereids.

A person with masterly skill or technique in the arts.

To move in waves or with a smooth, wavelike motion.


5. Vertebrate

A person with masterly skill or technique in the arts.

To move in waves or with a smooth, wavelike motion.

Sharing the same opinions or views; being in complete harmony or accord.

Having a backbone or spinal column.


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