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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 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. Light-Year

A grotesque ornamental figure or projection.

A conventional, formulaic, and oversimplified conception, opinion, or image.

Relating to a system of writing, such as that of ancient Egypt, in which pictorial symbols are used to represent meaning or sounds or a combination of meaning and sound.

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


2. Fallacy

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

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

Loud, noisy, and lacking in restraint or discipline

Incorrectness of reasoning or belief


3. Antibody

A Y-shaped protein on the surface of B cells that is secreted into the blood or lymph in response to an antigenic stimulus

A form of a verb that in some languages, such as English, can function independently as an adjective.

To move back or away from a limit, point, or mark

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


4. Aspire

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

The method or result of concealing personnel or equipment from an enemy by making them appear to be part of the natural surroundings

To have a great ambition or ultimate goal

A treeless area between the icecap and the tree line of Arctic regions, having a permanently frozen subsoil and supporting low-growing vegetation


5. Accentuate

To cringe in fear

To rejoice greatly; be jubilant or triumphant

Exceeding the limits of propriety or good manners; improperly forward or bold

To stress or emphasize; intensify


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