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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 

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

Words in the News Quiz
5 High School Words

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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. Deciduous

A form of government in which the political authority exercises absolute and centralized control over all aspects of life,

Falling off or shed at a specific season or stage of growth:

Playfully jocular; humorous

The clear, yellowish fluid portion of blood, lymph, or intramuscular fluid in which cells are suspended.


2. Unctuous

A temple tower of the ancient Assyrians and Babylonians, having the form of a terraced pyramid of successively receding stories.

Division into ordered groups or categories.

Characterized by affected, exaggerated, or insincere earnestness.

Having a harmful effect; injurious.


3. Laissez faire

Noninterference in the affairs of others.

Tumultuous; stormy.

Cheerfully confident; optimistic.

A reproductive cell having the haploid number of chromosomes, especially a mature sperm or egg capable of fusing with a gamete of the opposite sex to produce the fertilized egg.


4. Equinox

A reproductive cell having the haploid number of chromosomes, especially a mature sperm or egg capable of fusing with a gamete of the opposite sex to produce the fertilized egg.

To renounce under oath; forswear.

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

Characterized by forcefulness of expression or intensity of emotion or conviction; fervid.


5. Suffragist

An advocate of the extension of political voting rights, especially to women.

Full of or exhibiting servile compliance; fawning.

A factor that determines a range of variations; a boundary

A diligent, dependable worker.


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