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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. Abrogate

Tumultuous; stormy.

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

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

Needless repetition of the same sense in different words; redundancy.


2. Gerrymander

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

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

Overbearing pride or presumption; arrogance.

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


3. Ziggurat

Overbearing pride or presumption; arrogance.

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

Vanishing or likely to vanish like vapor.

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


4. Oxidize

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.

A part, portion, or share.

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

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


5. Precipitous

Extremely rapid, hasty, or abrupt; precipitate.

Interchanged, given, or owed to each other.

Any of numerous natural and synthetic compounds consisting of up to millions of repeated linked units,

Attended by favorable circumstances; propitious.


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