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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. Commemorate

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

To honor the memory of with a ceremony

A proportional part or share.

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


2. Sect

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

An alteration or change, as in nature, form, or quality.

Loud, noisy, and lacking in restraint or discipline

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


3. Nocturnal

Of, relating to, or occurring in the night

A metric unit of length equal to 1,000 meters (0.62 mile).

The arrangement of events in time

One that speaks for, represents, or advocates


4. Random

Having no specific pattern, purpose, or objective.

A picture or decorative design made by setting small colored pieces, as of stone or tile, into a surface.

Having a backbone or spinal column.

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


5. Vaccine

Enforced isolation or restriction of free movement imposed to prevent the spread of contagious disease.

A preparation of a weakened or killed pathogen.

A rebirth or revival.

A Y-shaped protein on the surface of B cells that is secreted into the blood or lymph in response to an antigenic stimulus


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