Words in the News

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

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5 High School Words

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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. Subjugate

► To bring under control; conquer.

► The clear, yellowish fluid portion of blood, lymph, or intramuscular fluid in which cells are suspended.

► To renounce under oath; forswear.

► The use of unnecessarily wordy and indirect language.

2. Pecuniary

► Of or relating to money

► Warlike in manner or temperament; pugnacious.

► To increase the positive charge or valence of (an element) by removing electrons.

► Shaking and vibration at the surface of the earth resulting from underground movement along a fault plane.

3. Loquacious

► Very talkative; garrulous.

► To modify, as by shortening or simplifying or by skewing the content in a certain manner.

► To picture falsely; misrepresent.

► Vanishing or likely to vanish like vapor.

4. Quasar

► Vanishing or likely to vanish like vapor.

► Architectural.

► An extremely distant, and thus old, celestial object whose power output is several thousand times that of our entire galaxy.

► Quickness, accuracy, and keenness of judgment or insight.

5. Vehement

► Characterized by forcefulness of expression or intensity of emotion or conviction; fervid.

► A temple tower of the ancient Assyrians and Babylonians, having the form of a terraced pyramid of successively receding stories.

► Attended by favorable circumstances; propitious.

► A sudden manifestation of the essence or meaning of something.

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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.