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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 

PRIOR

DEFINITION:
Existing or coming before in time, order, or importance.

FOUND IN THE NEWS:
Investigators learned Gray was interested in prior school shootings, including the 2018 Parkland, Fla., shooting and the 2012 Sandy Hook Elementary shooting in Newtown, Conn.
The Boston Herald, 09/09/2024

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. Nuisance

Marked by hearty conviviality and good cheer.

A relationship of mutual benefit or dependence.

One that is inconvenient, annoying, or vexatious; a bother.

Either of two times of the year when the sun is at its greatest distance from the celestial equator.


2. Mosaic

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

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

The distribution of energy emitted by a radiant source, arranged in order of wavelengths.

The systematic procedure by which a complex or scientific task is accomplished.


3. Marsupial

The distribution of energy emitted by a radiant source, arranged in order of wavelengths.

The systematic procedure by which a complex or scientific task is accomplished.

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

Any of various nonplacental mammals, including kangaroos, opossums, bandicoots, and wombats, found principally in Australia and the Americas.


4. Deduction

The drawing of a conclusion by reasoning; the act of deducing.

The main character in a drama or other literary work.

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

An ammunition belt, worn over the shoulder, having loops or pockets for cartridges.


5. Light-Year

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

An ammunition belt, worn over the shoulder, having loops or pockets for cartridges.

To proclaim publicly

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


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