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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. Bowdlerize

Clear to the understanding.

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

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

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


2. Homogeneous

Of the same or similar nature or kind

To renounce under oath; forswear.

A plane curve formed by the intersection of a right circular cone and a plane parallel to an element of the cone.

Tumultuous; stormy.


3. Nadir

A plane curve formed by the intersection of a right circular cone and a plane parallel to an element of the cone.

Tumultuous; stormy.

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

The lowest point


4. Pecuniary

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

A factor that determines a range of variations; a boundary

Of or relating to money

Warlike in manner or temperament; pugnacious.


5. Oxidize

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

An underlying base or foundation especially for an organization or system.

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

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


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