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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 

PETITIONER

DEFINITION:
A person who pleads with a governmental institution for a legal remedy or a redress of grievances, through the use of a petition.

FOUND IN THE NEWS:
While presenting the citizens’ petition for debate at the April 11 Spring Town Meeting, petitioners argued that ICE operations in Plymouth have “created fear” and “disrupted lives” among the immigrant community, leading to what they call a distrust of local police.
The Boston Herald, 04/20/2026

Words in the News Quiz
5 High 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. Taxonomy

Not limited to or associated with a particular religious denomination.

Feeling or showing haughty disdain.

The act or process of inhaling and exhaling; breathing.

Division into ordered groups or categories.


2. Polymer

A doctrine holding that all values are baseless and that nothing can be known or communicated.

Any of numerous natural and synthetic compounds consisting of up to millions of repeated linked units,

To renounce under oath; forswear.

The science and technology of building electronic circuits and devices from single atoms and molecules.


3. Photosynthesis

The science and technology of building electronic circuits and devices from single atoms and molecules.

A place or situation regarded as drawing into its center all that surrounds it.

Clear to the understanding.

The process in green plants and certain other organisms by which carbohydrates are synthesized from carbon dioxide and water using light as an energy source.


4. Laissez faire

Noninterference in the affairs of others.

Having unlimited or universal power, authority, or force; all-powerful.

Government by a few, especially by a small faction of persons or families.

Interchanged, given, or owed to each other.


5. Equinox

Impossible to dispute; unquestionable

Either of two points on the celestial sphere at which the ecliptic intersects the celestial equator.

The iron-containing respiratory pigment in red blood cells of vertebrates.

Cheerfully confident; optimistic.


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