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Words in the News

This Week's Word In The News 

PARLIAMENTARIAN

DEFINITION:
A consultant who advises the presiding officer and other officers, committees, and members on matters of parliamentary procedure.

FOUND IN THE NEWS:
Mia Cooper, a parliamentarian for the district, brought her daughter to district meetings and state-level education forums as the girl grew up.
The Los Angeles Times, 03/09/2026

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5 Elementary 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. muster

Make an idea, impression, or feeling known or understandable to someone.

An assemblage or display; a gathering, collection of people or things.

A piece of written, printed, or electronic matter that provides information or evidence or that serves as an official record.

Offensive or repulsive; arousing disgust or aversion


2. monotonous

Offensive or repulsive; arousing disgust or aversion

The power to affect, control or manipulate something or someone; the ability to change the development of fluctuating things such as conduct, thoughts or decisions.

The dividing line or location between two areas.

Having an unvarying tone or pitch


3. recuperate

To clarify or make something understandable

A gift or payment to a common fund or collection.

Strange or mysterious, esp. in an unsettling way

To recover, especially from an illness; to get better from an illness.


4. contortion

A movement or series of moves requiring skill and care

A form of acrobatic display which involves the dramatic bending and flexing of the human body.

An individual step, or stage, in any process or scale of values.

To refill; to renew; to supply again or to add a fresh quantity.


5. unsightly

To refill; to renew; to supply again or to add a fresh quantity.

To make sure or certain of something (usually some future event or condition).

To sway back and forth; to totter or reel.

Displeasing to the eye


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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.