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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. Feckless

To separate or get rid of (an undesirable part); eliminate.

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

Lacking purpose or vitality; feeble or ineffective.

Of the same or similar nature or kind


2. Bowdlerize

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

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.

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

Attended by favorable circumstances; propitious.


3. Deleterious

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

Attended by favorable circumstances; propitious.

To picture falsely; misrepresent.

Having a harmful effect; injurious.


4. Hypotenuse

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

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

The side of a right triangle opposite the right angle.

To renounce under oath; forswear.


5. Quotidian

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

Everyday; commonplace.

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

Not interesting; dull:


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