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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. Boisterous

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

A member of an irregular, usually indigenous military or paramilitary unit operating in small bands in occupied territory to harass and undermine the enemy

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

Loud, noisy, and lacking in restraint or discipline


2. Strategy

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

The science and art of using all the forces of a nation to execute approved plans as effectively as possible during peace or war.

An unstable, poisonous allotrope of oxygen.

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


3. Polygon

A closed plane figure bounded by three or more line segments.

Of, relating to, or occurring in the night

Marked by hearty conviviality and good cheer.

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


4. Introspection

Marked by hearty conviviality and good cheer.

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

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

Self-examination.


5. Voracious

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

To cringe in fear

To pound, crush, or grind to a powder or dust.

Consuming or eager to consume great amounts of food; ravenous.


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