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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

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. Photosynthesis

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

► The use of obstructionist tactics, especially prolonged speechmaking, for the purpose of delaying legislative action.

► 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.

► To increase the positive charge or valence of (an element) by removing electrons.

2. Facetious

► The predominant influence, as of a state, region, or group, over another or others.

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

► Playfully jocular; humorous

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

3. Hypotenuse

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

► The side of a right triangle opposite the right angle.

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

► To insert or introduce between other elements or parts.

4. Mitosis

► The process in cell division by which the nucleus divides.

► Belonging to the period before a war, especially the American Civil War.

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

► The use of unnecessarily wordy and indirect language.

5. Oligarchy

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

► The use of unnecessarily wordy and indirect language.

► A factor that determines a range of variations; a boundary

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

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