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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. Homogeneous

Of the same or similar nature or kind

Clear to the understanding.

A factor that determines a range of variations; a boundary

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


2. Totalitarian

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

A marked change in appearance, character, condition, or function.

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

To make an accusation against.


3. Hypotenuse

Physics that deals with the relationships and conversions between heat and other forms of energy.

The art or study of correct spelling according to established usage.

Everyday; commonplace.

The side of a right triangle opposite the right angle.


4. Tempestuous

A dramatic or literary form of discourse in which a character talks to himself or herself or reveals his or her thoughts without addressing a listener.

Tumultuous; stormy.

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

A sudden manifestation of the essence or meaning of something.


5. Incognito

Having one’s true identity concealed.

Of, relating to, or produced by motion.

To proceed completely around:

To abolish, do away with, or annul, especially by authority.


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