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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. Kowtow

A circular strand of DNA in bacteria that contains the hereditary information necessary for cell life.

A set of assumptions, concepts, values, and practices that constitutes a way of viewing reality

To show servile deference.

Shaking and vibration at the surface of the earth resulting from underground movement along a fault plane.


2. Xenophobe

Noninterference in the affairs of others.

An extremely distant, and thus old, celestial object whose power output is several thousand times that of our entire galaxy.

A person unduly fearful or contemptuous of that which is foreign, especially of strangers or foreign peoples.

Eating and drinking in moderation.


3. Auspicious

Put together; created.

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

Attended by favorable circumstances; propitious.

Of the same or similar nature or kind


4. Belie

Playfully jocular; humorous

To picture falsely; misrepresent.

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

Lacking purpose or vitality; feeble or ineffective.


5. Yeoman

Interchanged, given, or owed to each other.

To modify, as by shortening or simplifying or by skewing the content in a certain manner.

A diligent, dependable worker.

The use of unnecessarily wordy and indirect language.


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