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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 

VIGILANT

DEFINITION:
Keeping careful watch for possible danger or difficulties.

FOUND IN THE NEWS:
City police are seeking to remind Rocky Mount residents to remain vigilant for scammers who may try to engage in fraud in connection with needed fixes and repairs to residences and structures in the aftermath of Tropical Storm Debby.
Rocky Mount Telegram, 08/12/2024

Words in the News Quiz
5 High 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. Feckless

Division into ordered groups or categories.

Lacking purpose or vitality; feeble or ineffective.

To show servile deference.

To make an accusation against.


2. Mitosis

The process in cell division by which the nucleus divides.

Lacking social polish; tactless.

To proceed completely around:

A form of government in which the political authority exercises absolute and centralized control over all aspects of life,


3. Parabola

To proceed completely around:

A form of government in which the political authority exercises absolute and centralized control over all aspects of life,

Extremely rapid, hasty, or abrupt; precipitate.

A plane curve formed by the intersection of a right circular cone and a plane parallel to an element of the cone.


4. Photosynthesis

Of or relating to money

Physics that deals with the relationships and conversions between heat and other forms of energy.

The use of words to express something different from and often opposite to their literal meaning.

The process in green plants and certain other organisms by which carbohydrates are synthesized from carbon dioxide and water using light as an energy source.


5. Hubris

A system of names used in an art or science:

Overbearing pride or presumption; arrogance.

Logical incongruity

The act or process of inhaling and exhaling; breathing.


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