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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 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. Sect

One that speaks for, represents, or advocates

A cult or religious movement, a group sharing particular (often unorthodox) political and/or religious beliefs.

Having no specific pattern, purpose, or objective.

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


2. Tranquility

A grotesque ornamental figure or projection.

The quality or state of being tranquil; serenity.

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

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


3. Undulate

To move in waves or with a smooth, wavelike motion.

One that is inconvenient, annoying, or vexatious; a bother.

One thing conceived as representing another; a symbol.

A rebirth or revival.


4. Virtuoso

A rebirth or revival.

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

A person with masterly skill or technique in the arts.

Of or relating to the range of invisible radiation wavelengths from about 4 nanometers, on the border of the x-ray region, to about 380 nanometers, just beyond the violet in the visible spectrum.


5. Hieroglyphic

One that takes in everything available, as with the mind.

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.

Of, relating to, or occurring in the night

Either of two times of the year when the sun is at its greatest distance from the celestial equator.


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