Words in the News

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

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1. Quandary

► To cringe in fear

► Loud, noisy, and lacking in restraint or discipline

► Strikingly unconventional and far-fetched in style or appearance; odd

► A state of uncertainty or perplexity.

2. Pulverize

► To pound, crush, or grind to a powder or dust.

► 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

► Having or demonstrating enthusiasm

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

3. Labyrinth

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

► The practice of professing beliefs, feelings, or virtues that one does not hold or possess; falseness.

► The repetition of the same sounds or of the same kinds of sounds at the beginning of words or in stressed syllables

► The main character in a drama or other literary work.

4. Dialogue

► The repetition of the same sounds or of the same kinds of sounds at the beginning of words or in stressed syllables

► The main character in a drama or other literary work.

► The locus of points for which the sum of the distances from each point to two fixed points is equal

► Conversation between characters in a drama or narrative

5. Spectrum

► The right or privilege of voting; franchise.

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

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

► Not subject to an obligation imposed on others; exempt.

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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.