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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 

DEPLETE

DEFINITION:
To use up or consume a limited resource.

FOUND IN THE NEWS:
Councilor Brian Worrell is sounding off after a Suffolk Superior Court judge ruled that if the footage became public before trial, it would deplete the jury pool in the manslaughter case against Boston police officer Nick O’Malley.
The Boston Herald, 07/27/2026

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. Reparation

Cheerfully confident; optimistic.

The act or process of inhaling and exhaling; breathing.

To show servile deference.

Something done or paid to compensate or make amends.


2. Unctuous

To endow with the rights of citizenship, especially the right to vote.

Everyday; commonplace.

Having a harmful effect; injurious.

Characterized by affected, exaggerated, or insincere earnestness.


3. Deciduous

To weaken or destroy the strength or vitality of.

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

The use of words to express something different from and often opposite to their literal meaning.

To divide (a geographic area) into voting districts so as to give unfair advantage to one party in elections.


4. Nadir

To divide (a geographic area) into voting districts so as to give unfair advantage to one party in elections.

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

A plane curve formed by the intersection of a right circular cone and a plane parallel to an element of the cone.

The lowest point


5. Expurgate

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

Put together; created.

A factor that determines a range of variations; a boundary

To remove erroneous, vulgar, obscene, or otherwise objectionable material from (a book, for example) before publication.


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