Words in the News

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

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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. Outrageous

A schedule of prices or fees.

Inspiring awe, admiration, or wonder

Having a buoyant or self-confident air; brisk.

Grossly offensive to decency or morality.


2. Quarantine

A proportional part or share.

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

The pattern produced on a photosensitive medium that has been exposed by holography and then photographically developed.

Using or marked by the use of few words; terse or concise.


3. Light-Year

Using or marked by the use of few words; terse or concise.

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

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

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


4. Technique

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

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

Having a backbone or spinal column.

Not subject to an obligation imposed on others; exempt.


5. Deign

Consuming or eager to consume great amounts of food; ravenous.

An ammunition belt, worn over the shoulder, having loops or pockets for cartridges.

To condescend to give or grant

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


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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.