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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 

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

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. Winnow

Having a bad disposition; surly.

To separate or get rid of (an undesirable part); eliminate.

The use of unnecessarily wordy and indirect language.

To insert or introduce between other elements or parts.


2. Deleterious

To renounce under oath; forswear.

Of or relating to a holding of something in trust for another.

Having a harmful effect; injurious.

Tumultuous; stormy.


3. Acumen

Quickness, accuracy, and keenness of judgment or insight.

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

To make an accusation against.

An underlying base or foundation especially for an organization or system.


4. Nomenclature

A system of names used in an art or science:

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.

A dramatic or literary form of discourse in which a character talks to himself or herself or reveals his or her thoughts without addressing a listener.

Having unlimited or universal power, authority, or force; all-powerful.


5. Tautology

Needless repetition of the same sense in different words; redundancy.

The art or study of correct spelling according to established usage.

Logical incongruity

Impossible to dispute; unquestionable


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