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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 Elementary 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. recuperate

Important with regards to (a subject or matter); relevant

To send someone away and forbid that person from returning.

Emitting light; glowing brightly

To recover, especially from an illness; to get better from an illness.


2. jabber

To talk rapidly, indistinctly, or unintelligibly; to utter gibberish or nonsense.

So difficult or taxing as to make one exhausted; backbreaking.

Flexible, liable to change.

To run away with quick light steps, to scamper.


3. minority

Formally put an end to (a system, practice, or institution)

The smaller number or part, esp. a number that is less than half the whole number

To bump into or brush against while in motion.

To exclude; to specify as being an exception.


4. weather

To exclude; to specify as being an exception.

To come into view.

Exceptional, conspicuous, outstanding, most usually in a negative fashion.

The short term state of the atmosphere at a specific time and place, including the temperature, humidity, cloud cover, precipitation, wind, etc.


5. interdependence

The person, place or thing from which something (information, goods, etc.) comes or is acquired.

The power to affect, control or manipulate something or someone; the ability to change the development of fluctuating things such as conduct, thoughts or decisions.

Dependent on each other

To move or swing a weapon back and forth, particularly if demonstrating skill.


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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.