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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. Participle

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

To have a great ambition or ultimate goal

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

To grow well or luxuriantly; thrive


2. Commemorate

Having a backbone or spinal column.

To honor the memory of with a ceremony

Being without or almost without hope

The drawing of a conclusion by reasoning; the act of deducing.


3. Cower

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

Any of several rod-shaped bacteria, of the genus Salmonella, that cause food poisoning and other diseases.

To cringe in fear

The supporting and water-conducting tissue of vascular plants, consisting primarily of tracheids and vessels; woody tissue.


4. Toxin

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

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

The food-conducting tissue of vascular plants, consisting of sieve tubes, fibers, parenchyma, and sclereids.

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


5. Jovial

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

An ammunition belt, worn over the shoulder, having loops or pockets for cartridges.

Marked by hearty conviviality and good cheer.

A person authorized to act as representative for another; a deputy.


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