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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 

EXTRADITE

DEFINITION:
Hand over (a person accused or convicted of a crime) to the jurisdiction of the foreign state in which the crime was committed.

FOUND IN THE NEWS:
Deputy U.S. Marshals from Colorado flew to Canada this week to extradite a fugitive suspect back to the United States, officials announced Friday.
The Denver Post, 03/25/2024

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. Stereotype

Marked by hearty conviviality and good cheer.

Not subject to an obligation imposed on others; exempt.

The act of resting or the state of being at rest.

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


2. Decorum

Being without or almost without hope

Appropriateness of behavior or conduct

A prohibition by a government on certain or all trade with a foreign nation

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


3. Yacht

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

The science and art of using all the forces of a nation to execute approved plans as effectively as possible during peace or war.

A fungus, usually of the class Ascomycetes, that grows symbiotically with algae,

Any of various relatively small sailing or motor-driven vessels used for pleasure cruises or racing.


4. Laconic

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

A characteristic rate or rhythm of activity; a pace

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

A schedule of prices or fees.


5. Toxin

A preparation of a weakened or killed pathogen.

A poisonous substance, especially a protein, that is produced by living cells or organisms.

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

One who rejects a religion, cause, allegiance, or group for another; a deserter.


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