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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 

DEMOTION

DEFINITION:
A compulsory reduction in an employee's rank or job title within the organizational hierarchy of a company, public service department, or other body.

FOUND IN THE NEWS:
The Aug. 22 complaint from five current and former female employees alleges discrimination; wrongful termination or demotion; harassment and intimidation; pay inequities; and other things.
►The Dayton Daily News, 12/05/2022

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. Inference

► Appropriateness of behavior or conduct

► An elevated, comparatively level expanse of land; a tableland.

► A very large and destructive wave, generally caused by a tremendous disturbance in the ocean, such as an undersea earthquake or volcanic eruption.

► The act of reasoning from factual knowledge or evidence.

2. Sacrifice

► To honor the memory of with a ceremony

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

► Forfeiture of something highly valued for the sake of one considered to have a greater value or claim.

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

3. Delegate

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

► To have a great ambition or ultimate goal

► A conventional, formulaic, and oversimplified conception, opinion, or image.

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

4. Camouflage

► A preparation of a weakened or killed pathogen.

► The method or result of concealing personnel or equipment from an enemy by making them appear to be part of the natural surroundings

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

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

5. Despondent

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

► The main character in a drama or other literary work.

► The pattern produced on a photosensitive medium that has been exposed by holography and then photographically developed.

► Being without or almost without hope

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