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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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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. Participle

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

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

Harmful, malevolent, injurious. Harmfully cancerous.

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


2. Renegade

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

One that takes in everything available, as with the mind.

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

One who rejects a religion, cause, allegiance, or group for another; a deserter.


3. Guerrilla

Conversation between characters in a drama or narrative

Relating to a system of writing, such as that of ancient Egypt, in which pictorial symbols are used to represent meaning or sounds or a combination of meaning and sound.

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

To stress or emphasize; intensify


4. Tsunami

To grow well or luxuriantly; thrive

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

A schedule of prices or fees.

Similarity in some respects between things that are otherwise dissimilar.


5. Immune

Similarity in some respects between things that are otherwise dissimilar.

A treeless area between the icecap and the tree line of Arctic regions, having a permanently frozen subsoil and supporting low-growing vegetation

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

Not subject to an obligation imposed on others; exempt.


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.