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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. Nonsectarian

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

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

Physics that deals with the relationships and conversions between heat and other forms of energy.

Not limited to or associated with a particular religious denomination.


2. Quotidian

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

Everyday; commonplace.

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

A product of disintegration, destruction, or wearing away; debris.


3. Gauche

Lacking social polish; tactless.

To insert or introduce between other elements or parts.

Of, relating to, or produced by motion.

Logical incongruity


4. Lucid

Clear to the understanding.

A part, portion, or share.

Feeling or showing haughty disdain.

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


5. Plasma

Lacking purpose or vitality; feeble or ineffective.

The clear, yellowish fluid portion of blood, lymph, or intramuscular fluid in which cells are suspended.

A stock of terms used in a particular profession, subject, or style; a vocabulary:

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


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